Fatal error LNK1158: cannot run 'mt.exe'

I’m not sure if you solved this as it has been a while since you asked however I ran into the same error. I fixed it by installing Windows 10 SDK 10.0.17763.0 through the vs installer, previously my most recent SDK version was 10.0.14393. I then did a rebuild as doing a regular build was still using the previous SDK version.