I'm trying to build a job for Xamarin.forms project in mac terminal without UI method. but, not sure which are the tools are mandatory to be installed. Could anyone help here ?
Installed : Dotnet Core 6 version of visual studio SDK
Build need to be fully in terminal(mac-command line)
Need to do without visual studio application
Why not try build the app from the command line using MSBuild and see what errors it gives you. That way, you can find out what's missing and add things until it builds.
I'm using this command to build my apps from Windows (you may need to change a few things on Mac):
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\msbuild.exe" C:\Projects\MyApp\src\MyApp\MyApp.iOS\MyApp.iOS.csproj /p:Platform=iPhone /p:BuildIpa=true /p:IpaPackageDir=C:\Projects\MyApp\artifacts\App_iOS /p:IpaPackageName=MyApp.ipa /p:ServerAddress=192.168.0.23 /p:ServerUser="Username" /p:ServerPassword=123456SafePassword /p:ContinueOnDisconnected=false /p:Configuration=Release /restore /target:Build /verbosity:Normal
Here's some useful info on Continuous Integration with Xamarin.
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Here the repro steps:
Start VS 2017
Create a cross-platform project ==> Sample.sln
Build it in VS ==> Ok
By building with it with the command "msbuild Sample.sln" I get 4 times the following error message: error MSB4066: The attribute "Version" in element "PackageReference" is unrecognized.
Anything missing in the .csproj files I am supposed to add?
Thanks in advance for your support.
Make sure that you use the path to msbuild.exe that is installed with Visual Studio. Use the Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2017 if unsure, it has the PATH set up so that msbuild will point to the right executable.
This error happy when you use an old version of MSBuild (e.g. the version included in .NET Framework) that doesn't support the necessary features - metadata as attributes in this case.
I am trying to get MSBuild.exe without installing any Microsoft Visual Studio in Windows 10. I found it possible to get the git of MSBuild.exe from here:
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild.git
But I don't know how to build the MSBuild.exe once cloned the branch. The instructions in the repository are to build it with Visual Studio 2017. But I read it is possible to get MSBuild.exe without installing any Visual Studio.
I am really new at this, so maybe similar questions have been asked about this topic but I wasn't able to find them. Any help is appreciated.
Don't try to build MsBuild yourself which is only part of the tools you need.
But I read it is possible to get MSBuild.exe without installing any Visual Studio.
Yes, you should install "Microsoft Build Tools".
Use your preferred search engine to find it or look at:
How can I install the VS2017 version of msbuild on a build server without installing the IDE?
Xamarin Studio has been replaced for Visual Studio on MacOS. I have a project that builds a DLL using Xamarin iOS. For DevOps (automated release), I want to build the project for release from the command line. I know previously the mdtool was used for this purpose, as seen in this answer but now in visual studio there is no more mdtools binary anymore.
msbuild has replaced mdtool (and xbuild), so all the tasks that once were handled by mdtool are now handled by the cross-platform msbuild and its standard set of cmd-line options.
Release configuration:
Clean a single project in a solution
msbuild /p:SolutionDir=./ /target:Clean /p:Configuration=Release SomeProjectLibrary/SomeProjectLibrary.csproj
Build a single project in a solution
msbuild /p:SolutionDir=./ /target:Build /p:Configuration=Release SomeProjectLibrary/SomeProjectLibrary.csproj
Note: Using Using SolutionDir=./ so these cmds are being run from the root directory of the solution.
I have a Xamarin-based solution in Visual Studio 2015. One of the projects is an Android native shared library containing C++ code.
When I build the solution from within VS 2015 IDE, everything works as expected. However, when I try to build the solution from the command line I get an error.
The build command is:
msbuild mytest.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=ARM /t:Rebuild
The error I get is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets(64,5): error MSB8020: The build tools for Clang_3_8 (Platform Toolset = 'Clang_3_8') cannot be found. To build using the Clang_3_8 build tools, please install Clang_3_8 build tools. Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Upgrade Solution...".
My Visual Studio 2015 has all the updates applied. Wondering if anyone knows what the problem could be. Is it a path problem? Regards.
Turned out it is a path problem. Make sure to use the developer command prompt link under Program Files-->Visual Studio 2015->Visual Studio Tools. This batch file sets up proper paths, including the one for clang.
I have setup a new server machine. I setup windows sdk, .net framework sdk, and checkout my visual studio from svn. I would like to build my application using msbuild but it keeps asking me where the "windowsx.h" file is. I do not want to setup any visual studio ide. How can I make msbuild see windows sdk include folder using console?
With a normal install of Visual Studio you get a shortcut to a Visual Studio prompt. This sets all environment variables so you can use the compiler (and other tools) from the command line. First you can try to run msbuild from such a prompt. If that works add the necessary folders to the msbuild settings.