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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:00:40+00:00

I have a solution of mixed VB.NET and C++ projects. When using Visual Studio

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I have a solution of mixed VB.NET and C++ projects. When using Visual Studio 2005 you can set the ‘Tools->Option->Projects and Solutions->VC++ Directories’ to help the compiler find your include files. When building the same solution with MSBuild I don’t see how to pass these settings. The C++ won’t compile without this path specified. When building this solution form Visual Studio it build perfectly.

What is the way to pass this path for MSBUild?

Edit: Looks like MSBuild doesn’t pass the path (or the /u switch) to vcbuild. Starting from VCBuild instead fails on dependency.

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  1. To set the include directories, you can add them into your INCLUDE environment variable. You use the same format as in PATH env. variable – you separate paths with semicolons.

    To set the library directories – you can do it in similar way, by putting them into your LIB environment variable.

    To set environment variables, you simply right-click ‘My Computer’, choose ‘Properties’. Then you go to ‘Advanced’ tab, and there’s a button called ‘Environment Variables’.

    Or, you can run MSBuild from a BATCH script, in which case, before calling MSBuild, you can set the INCLUDE and LIB variables, like so:

    set INCLUDE=C:\Libraries\LibA\Include set LIB=C:\Libraries\LibA\Lib\x86
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