From: Warren Young Date: August 29 2005 5:40pm Subject: Re: Newbie VC build help List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/4832 Message-Id: <431348A6.8000208@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ed we wrote: > > NMAKE : fatal error U1045: spawn failed : Invalid argument I found this in the Mozilla build FAQ: "COMSPEC environment variable needs to point to cmd.exe not command.com. When upgrading to NT this must be done manually."