warning C4996: 'fopen' was declared deprecated

in visual studio 2008 environment, to get rid of warnings such as

warning C4996: 'fopen' was declared deprecated

do the following:

add _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE to Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions.

the solution is from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14386/fopen-deprecated-warning

error: error spawning cmd.exe

While trying to build a component in Visual Studio 2008 environment, i got the error error spawning cmd.exe

sorry, i could not remember where i discovered this solution, but it worked:

In the Options go into Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories page and place this rows:

$(SystemRoot)\System32