This has been happening for a little while (at least a month). I have been routinely building Vim on Win XP SP2 for a couple of years now.
Now when I build it and try to run it I get: C:\OpenSrc\vim7\src>gvim.exe The system cannot execute the specified program. Unforutunately, the error message does not give me much to go on. Running gvimd yields: C:\OpenSrc\vim7\src>gvimd.exe The system cannot execute the specified program. So that doesn't help either. I can build and successfully run the console versions: VIM - Vi IMproved version 7.0.224 :ver VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Mar 30 2007 19:57:56) MS-Windows 32 bit console version Included patches: 1-224 Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I grabbed the last part of the build of gvim.exe, it might shed some light: if_cscope.c netbeans.c Generating Code... cl -c /W3 /nologo -D_MT -MT -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_PATHDEF -DWIN32 -DFEAT _CSCOPE -DFEAT_NETBEANS_INTG -DFEAT_XPM_W32 -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0 x0400 /Fo.\ObjGOLY/ /Ox -DNDEBUG -DFEAT_OLE -DFEAT_GUI_W32 -DDYNAMIC_ICONV -DD YNAMIC_GETTEXT -DFEAT_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON_DLL=\"python24.d ll\" -DFEAT_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL_DLL=\"perl58.dll\" -DFEAT_BIG /Zi /Fd.\ObjGOLY/ if_ole.cpp if_ole.cpp cl -c /W3 /nologo -D_MT -MT -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_PATHDEF -DWIN32 -DFEAT _CSCOPE -DFEAT_NETBEANS_INTG -DFEAT_XPM_W32 -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0 x0400 /Fo.\ObjGOLY/ /Ox -DNDEBUG -DFEAT_OLE -DFEAT_GUI_W32 -DDYNAMIC_ICONV -DD YNAMIC_GETTEXT -DFEAT_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON_DLL=\"python24.d ll\" -DFEAT_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL_DLL=\"perl58.dll\" -DFEAT_BIG /Zi /Fd.\ObjGOLY/ version.c version.c link /RELEASE /nologo /subsystem:windows /incremental:no /nodefaultlib:l ibc -out:gvim.exe .\ObjGOLY\buffer.obj .\ObjGOLY\charset.obj .\ObjGOLY\diff.ob j .\ObjGOLY\digraph.obj .\ObjGOLY\edit.obj .\ObjGOLY\eval.obj .\ObjGOLY\ex_c mds.obj .\ObjGOLY\ex_cmds2.obj .\ObjGOLY\ex_docmd.obj .\ObjGOLY\ex_eval.obj .\ObjGOLY\ex_getln.obj .\ObjGOLY\fileio.obj .\ObjGOLY\fold.obj .\ObjGOLY\getc har.obj .\ObjGOLY\hardcopy.obj .\ObjGOLY\hashtab.obj .\ObjGOLY\main.obj .\Ob jGOLY\mark.obj .\ObjGOLY\mbyte.obj .\ObjGOLY\memfile.obj .\ObjGOLY\memline.ob j .\ObjGOLY\menu.obj .\ObjGOLY\message.obj .\ObjGOLY\misc1.obj .\ObjGOLY\mis c2.obj .\ObjGOLY\move.obj .\ObjGOLY\normal.obj .\ObjGOLY\ops.obj .\ObjGOLY\o ption.obj .\ObjGOLY\os_mswin.obj .\ObjGOLY\os_win32.obj .\ObjGOLY\pathdef.obj .\ObjGOLY\popupmnu.obj .\ObjGOLY\quickfix.obj .\ObjGOLY\regexp.obj .\ObjGOL Y\screen.obj .\ObjGOLY\search.obj .\ObjGOLY\spell.obj .\ObjGOLY\syntax.obj . \ObjGOLY\tag.obj .\ObjGOLY\term.obj .\ObjGOLY\ui.obj .\ObjGOLY\undo.obj .\Ob jGOLY\window.obj .\ObjGOLY\vim.res .\ObjGOLY\gui.obj .\ObjGOLY\gui_beval.obj .\ObjGOLY\gui_w32.obj .\ObjGOLY\os_w32exe.obj .\ObjGOLY\if_ole.obj .\ObjGOLY\ if_perl.obj .\ObjGOLY\if_perlsfio.obj .\ObjGOLY\if_python.obj .\ObjGOLY/if_c scope.obj .\ObjGOLY/netbeans.obj .\ObjGOLY/xpm_w32.obj .\ObjGOLY\version.obj ad vapi32.lib shell32.lib gdi32.lib comdlg32.lib ole32.lib uuid.lib oldnames.lib ke rnel32.lib gdi32.lib version.lib winspool.lib comctl32.lib advapi32.lib shell3 2.lib /machine:i386 /nodefaultlib libcmt.lib oleaut32.lib user32.lib /node faultlib:python24.lib WSock32.lib C:\download\OpenSrc\vim\XPM_support_for_Net beans\xpm-4.2.0\lib\libXpm.lib /PDB:gvim.pdb -debug cl /nologo -DNDEBUG vimrun.c vimrun.c cl /nologo -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 dosinst.c kernel32.lib shell32.lib ole32.li b advapi32.lib uuid.lib dosinst.c if exist install.exe del install.exe ren dosinst.exe install.exe cl /nologo -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 uninstal.c shell32.lib advapi32.lib uninstal.c cd xxd nmake /NOLOGO -f Make_mvc.mak cl /nologo -DWIN32 xxd.c xxd.c cd .. cd GvimExt nmake /NOLOGO -f Makefile cl -c -DCRTAPI1=_cdecl -DCRTAPI2=_cdecl -nologo -D_X86_=1 -DWIN32 -D_WI N32 -W3 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0400 -DWINVER=0x0400 -DFEAT_GETTEXT -D_MT -D_DLL -MD gvim ext.cpp gvimext.cpp Rc /r -DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -DWINVER=0x0400 gvimext.rc link /INCREMENTAL:NO /NOLOGO -dll -def:gvimext.def -base:0x1C000000 -ou t:gvimext.dll gvimext.obj gvimext.res ole32.lib uuid.lib oleaut32.lib kernel32.l ib ws2_32.lib mswsock.lib advapi32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib comdlg32.lib winspo ol.lib shell32.lib comctl32.lib gvimext.def(4) : warning LNK4017: DESCRIPTION statement not supported for the ta rget platform; ignored Creating library gvimext.lib and object gvimext.exp cd .. Any suggestions? TIA, Dave