mt.exe : general error c101008d

mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/3af4e97b-1f16-43b0-b81f-fc0fd0c04d26

Remove the \debug and \release directies of all projects in your solution; this got rid of the problem for me.

I am not sure why.

It worked for me too; i.e. by deleting the entire output folder, it is working just fine.