nmake error in VS2010

Question

Hi All,
I am getting the below error when I do clean up of my project.



>------ Clean started: Project: BuildSDK, Configuration: Debug X64 ------
1>Build started 3/22/2010 12:03:48 PM.
1>CoreClean:
1>  'NMAKE' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
1>  operable program or batch file.
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets(33,5): error MSB3073: The command "NMAKE /f BuildSDK.mak clean CONFIGURATIONNAME=Debug RELATIVEROOTPATH=..\..\.. /a" exited with code 9009.


This project was working fine in VS2003 and it has been upgraded to VS2010 now.

I have checked the path "VC++ Directories"/"Executable Directories", it does contain  $(VCInstallDir)bin and assume $(VCInstallDir) is c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\ . Even I have mentioned the latter path explicitly but no luck. I tried with  c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin/amd64 as well but no improvement.

Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
-R

Answer 1

Yes, there is a known issue in VS2010 that the environment is not set up properly for nmake clean command. As a result, nmake cannot be found when doing clean. You can workaround the issue by one of the following method:

• Launching Devenv from Visual Studio command prompt: devenv /useenv

Or

• Have the nmake clean command calling a batch file, in which the build environment is set including the PATH to nmake.

You can also do rebuild instead of clean/build. It should properly clean up and build.

Li Shao, MSFT

 

 

 

 

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Li Shao

Answer 2

Thanks for the feedback. Please take a look of this blog for build issues when upgrading to VS2010: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2010/03/02/visual-studio-2010-c-project-upgrade-guide.aspx

Li Shao, MSFT

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Li Shao

Answer 3

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. Annoying, but good to know I wasn't missing something.  Has this issue been fixed in a fixpack or in later versions?