I am stuck trying to let GitLab CI run a shell file that builds Unity Player. It works when I do it but not when GitLab Tries it - shell

Question

The Problem
I used a tutorial to create a shell file that would build an Unity player for me. Tutorial I used. But when I try to let GitLab's CI call this shell script it seems only clean-up the directory and just ignore the Unity build command. Console output
My .yml file looks like this: (Important is the build-job: section all the other stuff works)
stages: # List of stages for jobs, and their order of execution
- build
- test
build-job: # This job runs in the build stage, which runs first.
stage: build
script:
- echo "Compiling the code..."
- ./Build/build.sh
- echo "Compile complete."
unit-test-job: # This job runs in the test stage.
stage: test # It only starts when the job in the build stage completes successfully.
script:
- echo "Running unit tests... This will take about 60 seconds."
- C:/"Program Files"/Unity/Hub/Editor/2020.3.20f1/Editor/Unity.exe \
-batchmode \
-projectPath C:/Users/joshu/Desktop/Gamedev/Testing/testing-asignment-2/"Testing_Asignment 2" \
-runTests -testPlatform editmode \
-logFile . \
-testResults ./unit-tests.xml \
-quit
- echo "Code is tested"
lint-test-job: # This job also runs in the test stage.
stage: test # It can run at the same time as unit-test-job (in parallel).
script:
- echo "Linting code... This will take about 10 seconds."
- echo "No lint issues found."
My shell script contains this:
echo Cleaning Up Build Folder
rm -rf ./Build/Builds
echo Starting Build Process
C:/"Program Files"/Unity/Hub/Editor/2020.3.20f1/Editor/Unity.exe -quit -projectPath ../"Testing Asignment 2" -executeMethod Building.MyBuildScript.PreformBuild
echo Ended Build Process
My building script contains this:
using System;
using System.IO;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEditor.Build.Reporting;
namespace Building
{
public class MyBuildScript
{
public static void PreformBuild()
{
BuildPlayerOptions buildPlayerOptions = new BuildPlayerOptions();
buildPlayerOptions.scenes = new[] { "Assets/Scenes/SampleScene.unity" };
buildPlayerOptions.locationPathName = "../Build/Builds/WindowsBuild/Windows64Build.x86_64";
buildPlayerOptions.target = BuildTarget.StandaloneWindows64;
buildPlayerOptions.options = BuildOptions.None;
BuildReport report = BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer(buildPlayerOptions);
using StreamWriter writer = File.CreateText("../Build/Builds/WindowsBuild/results.txt");
writer.Write(
$"Build result: {report.summary.result} \n" +
$"Process time: \n" +
$" start: {report.summary.buildStartedAt} \n" +
$" end: {report.summary.buildEndedAt} \n" +
$" total: {report.summary.totalTime} \n" +
$"{report.summary.totalErrors} Errors found{(report.summary.totalErrors > 0 ? "!" : "")}");
}
}
}
I think that there is some thing wrong with the access of my Unity.exe but when I open security settings on windows the excess to write/execute is enabled.
Things I tried
I also tried just not using a shell script and calling the MyBuildScript from the .yml directly.
build-job: # This job runs in the build stage, which runs first.
stage: build
script:
- echo "Compiling the code..."
- C:/"Program Files"/Unity/Hub/Editor/2020.3.20f1/Editor/Unity.exe -quit -projectPath ./"Testing Asignment 2" -executeMethod Building.MyBuildScript.PreformBuild
- echo "Compile complete."
But this also seemed to not execute Unity and just skip the command.
Furthermore I tried using the -buildWindows64Player instead of the -executeMethod.
build-job: # This job runs in the build stage, which runs first.
stage: build
script:
- echo "Compiling the code..."
- C:/"Program Files"/Unity/Hub/Editor/2020.3.20f1/Editor/Unity.exe -quit -projectPath ./"Testing Asignment 2" -buildWindows64Player ./Build/Builds/WindowsBuild
- echo "Compile complete."
But this also seemed have skipped Unity. However this way of trying did take the longest to finish. All the other options were done in a few seconds but doing it like this it took about a minute or two. I don't know why but if I had to guess it would be because it actually did start-up Unity and failed somewhere on the way.
Note
I know that I should add -batchmode to the shell commands but first I want to see Unity open so that I know it is doing something.
Little update as of 12-29-2021 23:48. I noticed that the unit-test also wasn't realy working but I fixed this by changing my Unity version to 2021.2.7f1, changing the Unity project folder structure and updating the unit-test section to this:
unit-test-job: # This job runs in the test stage.
stage: test # It only starts when the job in the build stage completes successfully.
script:
- echo "Running unit tests... This will take about 60 seconds."
- C:/"Program Files"/Unity/Hub/Editor/2021.2.7f1/Editor/Unity.exe -batchmode -projectPath C:/Users/joshu/Desktop/Gamedev/Testing/testing-asignment-2/"Testing Asignment 2" -runTests -testPlatfrom editmode -logFile -testResults ./unit-tests.xml | Out-Default

Answer 1

Well turns out I did something stupid. I had my runner installed on my laptop and kept trying to push new changes from my pc. However I used the projectPath that pointed to my local project on the laptop and not the project that the runner was cloning from GitLab. So the -projectPath now points to ./"Testing Asignment 2". This also was the reason I thought changing my Unity version helped because I pulled the project to my laptop while installing a new version.
I also discoverd that my test needed to have "| Out-Default" behind it to actually sort of read the test data. StackOverflow page that helped with this
I don't realy use the shell script anymore now but I just wanted it building Unity, and that works!
The .yml file I am using right now looks like this:
stages: # List of stages for jobs, and their order of execution
- build
- test
build-job: # This job runs in the build stage, which runs first.
stage: build
script:
- echo "Compiling the code..."
- C:/"Program Files"/Unity/Hub/Editor/2021.2.7f1/Editor/Unity.exe -batchmode -quit -projectPath ./"Testing Asignment 2" -executeMethod Building.MyBuildScript.PreformBuild | Out-Default
- echo "Compile complete."
unit-test-job: # This job runs in the test stage.
stage: test # It only starts when the job in the build stage completes successfully.
script:
- echo "Running unit tests... This will take about 60 seconds."
- C:/"Program Files"/Unity/Hub/Editor/2021.2.7f1/Editor/Unity.exe -batchmode -quit -projectPath ./"Testing Asignment 2" -runTests -testPlatfrom editmode -logFile -testResults ./unit-tests.xml | Out-Default
(I also changed my gitignore to not ignore Library\ScriptAssemblies from Unity. But I don't know if this is needed.)