PRB: STARTUP.BAT Gives U1073: Don't Know How to Make STDIO.H

ID: Q67161

6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 | 6.00 6.00a | 1.00 1.50 1.51

MS-DOS                 | OS/2       | WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft C for MS-DOS, versions 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0ax
Microsoft C for OS/2, versions 6.0 and 6.0a
Microsoft C/C++ version 7.0
Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows, versions 1.0, 1.5, and 1.51

SYMPTOMS

When running the batch file STARTUP.BAT that comes with C versions 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0ax or the CSTARTUP.BAT that comes with C/C++ version 7.0 and Visual C++ for Windows, you may receive the following error:

   U1073: don't know how to make 'stdio.h'.

CAUSE

This is actually an NMAKE error and may be the result of having more than one search path for the INCLUDE environment variable, as shown in the following example:

   include=c:\c600\include;c:\masm\include

Because batch files cannot parse out separate paths for environment variables, it is necessary to have only one INCLUDE path specified. This allows the filename to be included to be appended to the end of that path.

RESOLUTION

To correct the problem, only one search path should be used, as in the following example:

   include=c:\c600\include

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Last Reviewed: July 18, 1997