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Why does nmake fail to build LM-X SDK under Windows Vista?
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Last Updated: 01st April 2008 10:55:25 pm

Due to the nature of UAC in Windows Vista, you must build LM-X as an administrator. Otherwise, nmake will fail due to insufficient security, and you'll see ambiguous error messages such as:

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.762
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     if exist lib\lcodedata_mdd.obj del lib\lcodedata_mdd.obj
     if exist lib\lcodedata.c del lib\lcodedata.c
     cd lib
     ..\lmxdev -genlinkfile ..\config\xformation.lmx
NMAKE : fatal error U1045: spawn failed : No error
Stop.

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