When you use the Microsoft Program Maintenance Utility (Nmake.exe) in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, you may receive the following error message:

U1073: The build method of FileName is not specified.

You experience this problem if the following conditions are true:

• You use Nmake.exe version 8.00.50727.42 or a later version of Nmake.exe.
• You use the English version of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on the Japanese version of the operating system.

Note: This problem may not occur when you use earlier versions of Nmake.exe.