Build project in VS2015: "csc.exe" exited with code -1073741571

Question

I was using Visual studio 2013. Yesterday, I installed VS2015(enterprise update 3). The build process for my solution crashes in VS2015 for one of the projects. The same exception occurs with VS2017 RC. The solution was building succesfully in VS2013.

The solution is targeting .Net4.5. When I migrate to .Net4.6.2, it does not solve this issue.

I believe the problem is coming with compiler included in VS2015+

Output :

Process is terminated due to StackOverflowException.

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.CSharp.Core.targets(67,5): error MSB6006: "csc.exe" exited with code -1073741571.

Msbuild command:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\csc.exe \
  /noconfig \
  /nowarn:1591,1701,1702,2008 \
  /nostdlib+ \
  /errorreport:prompt \
  /warn:4 \
  /define:TRACE;DEBUG;DOMAIN_IMPL \
  /errorendlocation \
  /preferreduilang:en-US \
  /highentropyva+ \
  /reference:[...] \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.ComponentModel.Composition.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.Configuration.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.Core.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.Data.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.Net.Http.dll"  \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.Net.Http.WebRequest.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.Runtime.Serialization.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.Xml.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\System.Xml.Linq.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Collections.Concurrent.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Collections.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ComponentModel.Annotations.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ComponentModel.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ComponentModel.EventBasedAsync.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Diagnostics.Contracts.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Diagnostics.Debug.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Diagnostics.Tools.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Diagnostics.Tracing.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Dynamic.Runtime.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Globalization.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.IO.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Linq.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Linq.Expressions.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Linq.Parallel.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Linq.Queryable.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Net.NetworkInformation.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Net.Primitives.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Net.Requests.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Net.WebHeaderCollection.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ObjectModel.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Reflection.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Reflection.Emit.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Reflection.Emit.ILGeneration.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Reflection.Emit.Lightweight.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Reflection.Extensions.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Reflection.Primitives.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Resources.ResourceManager.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.Extensions.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.Handles.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.InteropServices.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.Numerics.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.Serialization.Primitives.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Runtime.Serialization.Xml.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Security.Principal.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ServiceModel.Duplex.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ServiceModel.Http.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ServiceModel.NetTcp.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ServiceModel.Primitives.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.ServiceModel.Security.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Text.Encoding.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Text.Encoding.Extensions.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Text.RegularExpressions.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Threading.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Threading.Tasks.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Threading.Timer.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Xml.XDocument.dll" \
  /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.6.2\Facades\System.Xml.XmlSerializer.dll" \
  /debug- \
  /filealign:512 \
  /optimize- \
  /out:obj\Debug\EA4T.SteadyBear.Domain.dll \
  /ruleset:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\\Rule Sets\AllRules.ruleset" \
  /subsystemversion:6.00 \
  /resource:[...] \
  /target:library \
  /utf8output [...].cs "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2.AssemblyAttributes.cs" obj\Debug\\TemporaryGeneratedFile_E7A71F73-0F8D-4B9B-B56E-8E70B10BC5D3.cs obj\Debug\\TemporaryGeneratedFile_036C0B5B-1481-4323-8D20-8F5ADCB23D92.cs obj\Debug\\TemporaryGeneratedFile_5937a670-0e60-4077-877b-f7221da3dda1.cs

When debugging csc using windbg, here is what occurs: http://pastebin.com/d8AiaSgh . Everything falls down into many Microsoft_CodeAnalysis_CSharp_ni frames. Please note that code analysis is disabled in the project settings.

Answer 1

Here the problem was the memory usage of the system.

The StandardCollector.Service.exe took a Commit Size of 74GB, so it snooped all memory of the system and more. After killing it, memory freed up and the build in Jenkins completed without errors.

Answer 2

This issue occurs when the project contains 1024+ fluent chained call.

In the following sample, if FluentMethod() is call more than 1024 times on foo, the compiler will crash.

var foo= new Foo();
var result = foo
.FluentMethod()
.FluentMethod()
...;

Efficient workaround is to split fluent call into smaller group :

var temp = foo.FluentMethod().FluentMethod();
var result = temp.FluentMethod().FluentMethod();

There is an issue on the compiler github about this

Answer 3

If you have Code Contracts installed and enabled, go to the Code Contracts tab in the offending project's properties and uncheck "Emit contracts into XML doc file".