Makecat error: no members found

I am having issues running makecat.exe on Windows 8.1 (Enterprise/Pro). I am trying to generate a .cat file for a Windows Troubleshooting Platform .diagcab and getting the error below.

opened: ..\DiagPackage.cdf

attribute: OSAttr

Failed: No members found. Last Error: 0x00000000

Failed 0x00000000 (0)

This was definitely working for me in January this year running Windows 8.1. However now even using the same .cdf file (and script) that I previously used to generate the .cat file returns this error for no apparent reason. The result is a .cat file with no file hashes.

The contents of the .cdf file is listed below. Also noting that there is an extra carriage return/new line at the end of the file as per the sdk documentation.

[CatalogHeader]
Name=DiagPackage.cat              
PublicVersion=0x0000001
EncodingType=0x00010001
CATATTR1=0x10010001:OSAttr:2:6.1

[CatalogFiles]
<hash>DiagPackage.diagpkg=DiagPackage.diagpkg
<hash>DiagPackage.diagpkgATTR1=0x10010001:Filename:DiagPackage.diagpkg
<hash>D_Main.ps1=D_Main.ps1
<hash>D_Main.ps1ATTR1=0x10010001:Filename:D_Main.ps1
<hash>R_ECP.Diagnostic.UserUpdate.ps1=R_ECP.Diagnostic.UserUpdate.ps1
<hash>R_ECP.Diagnostic.UserUpdate.ps1ATTR1=0x10010001:Filename:R_ECP.Diagnostic.UserUpdate.ps1

I have tried the makecat.exe from most recent SDK for 8.1 (last updated May 13, 2014) and the version in the archive (last updated April 2, 2014) no luck for either.

Has any one had this issue and solved it?

I haven't been able to get past the issue with the Windows 8.1 SDK.

However I have worked around it by:

• using "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4" using the ISO version available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8442
• installing the WinSDKTools_x86.msi

The version of makecat.exe is 6.1.7600.16385 which works fine with Windows 8.1 Update 1 (x64).