Fixing CS1668: Invalid Search path in LIB environment variable

When trying to run msbuild.exe against .sln file it results in error message

"error CS1668: Warning as error: Invalid search path 
'C:Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\common\lib' 
specified in 'LIB environment variable'.

If you take a look at this folder, there is actually no "common\lib" sub folder.

Solution: Simply create "common\lib" sub folders and rerun MSbuild. MSbuild doesn't  actually need anything from this folder but it's set as input variable anyways during Visual Studio setup.

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