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invalid or corrupt file

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reproducing the Visual Studio 2019 compilation failure with #include "HTTPRequest.hpp" and inspect how HTTPRequest.hpp is added to the project. Confirm whether the reported linker or compiler error is caused by the project configuration or the single-header file; done means identifying a reproducible cause and documenting or fixing it.

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Description

[Visual Studio 2019]
Hi,
when I try #include "HTTPRequest.hpp" and then try to compile I get the error "Invalid or corrupt file: cannot read at 0x5F48". I can see the file in the solution explorer and added it to the additional dependencies in the linker. The Microsoft-Docs say to recreate the file, but even that didn't help.
Sorry if I am just forgetting something but I am a bit new to c++.

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