Sunday 6 April 2008

MSBuild, VS2008 and "Invalid search path"

Since installing VS2008 I have been getting the following error when using the VS2008 Command Prompt and trying to build Visual Studio solutions or trying to run "local" Team Builds:

CSC : error CS1668: Warning as Error: Invalid search path 'C:\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\lib' specified in 'LIB environment variable' -- 'The system cannot find the path specified. '

The reason for this is that the environment variables configured for this command console assume you have installed the C++ components with Visual Studio (which I did not install for the sakes of disk space).

The easiest way to solve this problem is to create the path. The "'C:\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\" path should already exist, so just create a "Lib" folder at that location.

Its a simple fix but working out why this was a problem was tricky, it niggled me why a fairly straight forward install of VS2008 would have a not insignificant problem.

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