# Re: Invalid Search Path - Building IronRuby on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [June 5, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-invalid-search-path-building-ironruby-on-windows/139644 "2008-06-05T18:38:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-invalid-search-path-building-ironruby-on-windows/139644/1 "2008-06-05T18:38:59Z")
No. If you want to tackle this it would be great to define an external irvars.bat file to setup the paths based on the dir that it lives in. - John Sent from my phone * * * From: Jim D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:35 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Invalid Search Path - Building IronRuby on Windows Is there a env variable in the external case? One that we can use in place of MERLN\_ROOT? From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of John L. (IRONRUBY) Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:30 AM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Invalid Search Path - Building IronRuby on Windows Something in the build process is trashing that file. Jim - can you send a clean copy of ir.cmd to the list? Note that there are hard coded paths in ir.cmd that we need to generate for the ext layout. - John Sent from my phone * * * From: Joe F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:04 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Invalid Search Path - Building IronRuby on Windows Thanks for the advice. I took it out of the LIB path. Felt kinda stupid that that was it ;). Now I’m getting a syntax error trying to run ir.cmd. Any ideas on that? -Joe On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Peter Bacon D. wrote: Or just create the folder it is looking for. Pete From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Michael Letterle Sent: Thursday,05 June 05, 2008 15:21 To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Invalid Search Path - Building IronRuby on Windows Install the embedded Windows SDK components from VS2008? (Use can use the express editions:[http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2007/11/30/released-visual-studio-2008-with-embedded-windows-sdk-components.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2007/11/30/released-visual-studio-2008-with-embedded-windows-sdk-components.aspx)) or remove that directory from the LIB environment variable. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Joe F. \ wrote: I get the following error when issuing a Rake compile w/ r113: 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. ’ rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [csc /out:"c:\software development\open sou…] C:/Software Development/Open Source Projects/IronRuby/trunk/rakefile:159 Anyone have an idea how to fix this? Thanks! Joe F. * * * Ironruby-core mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core) – Michael L. [Polymath Prokrammer] [http://blog.prokrams.com](http://blog.prokrams.com)