This started happening last week for workflows that I try to build out of Visual Studio:
Done building project "CSWinWF-21def8cc231f4db6a2fcd2c99fca4832.csproj".
Build succeeded.
Done executing task "WorkflowCompiler" -- FAILED.
Done building target "ProjectCompilation" in project "TestVS.k2proj" -- FAILED.
and finish up with this:
Build succeeded.
Time Elapsed 00:00:01.55
========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
and they are unable to be deployed. Nothing in the Error List though.
Even creating a new workflow with just one DataEvent activity has the same result. Don't recall anything changing since the last successful build, apart from Microsoft patching.
Visual Studio Professional 2013, K2 4.7 with August 2017 CU FP4, SharePoint 2013