I use syntax like "%SDK_PATH%\sdk_dir\test.vcxproj" in .sln file.
And it is work fine for me from IDE.
But msbuildl does not understand this syntax and will emit a error MSB3202 ("The project file was not found.") when I use it from command line:
msbuild test.sln /p:Configuration=Debug
Is there a way to resolve this issue?
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I have the following solution:
MySolution\
MySolution.sln
MyCSProject\
MyCSProject.csproj
MyCPPProject\
VC11\
projfile.vcxproj
VC8
projfile.vcproj
MyInstallationProject
MyInstallationPackage.vdproj
In Visual Studio I have MyCSProject set as main project. But for automated build I need to build MyInstallationProject with dependencies. MyInstallationProject depends on MyCSProject and MyCSProject depends on MyCPPProject. If I build from Visual Studio, it works.
But for MSBuild I can't compose correct command. Neither of the following worked:
"...\MSBuild.exe" MySolution.sln /t:MySolution\MyInstallationProject /p:Configuration="Release" /p:Platform="x64"
"...\MSBuild.exe" MySolution.sln /t:MySolution\MyInstallationProject.vdproj /p:Configuration="Release" /p:Platform="x64"
"...\MSBuild.exe" MySolution.sln /t:MyInstallationProject /p:Configuration="Release" /p:Platform="x64"
"...\MSBuild.exe" MyInstallationProject\MyInstallationProject.vdproj /p:Configuration="Release" /p:Platform="x64"
and so on, with various errors, mainly "The target *** does not exist in the project"
How to know correct command and or the name of target, associated with the project?
In fact, one of the third and the fourth msbuild command line should have worked in your side. Also, there is a document about it.
The truth is that MSBuild cannot build the vdproj file. It is from VS installer project extension and the build tool is a separate tool from the extension rather than in the MSBuild. You can easily open the vdproj file and could find that it is not a xml style.
MSBuild can only build the xml sytle proj file.
To test it, you could try the same msbuild command line for MyCSProject project to get the difference.
So the right way is to use VS IDE build or use devenv build command line which means you have to you have VS IDE on your local.
Try the following command line:
1) open Developer Command Prompt for VS:
2) run:
cd xxx\xxx\MySolution
devenv MyInstallationProject\MyInstallationProject.vdproj /build
I have a solution that contains a project with AutoGenerateBindingRedirects set to "true". When I build it via Visual Studio 2013, the .config file in the output directory contains an generated assembly binding redirect for EntityFramework, and the project runs. However, on the build server, which calls MSBuild, this property is not followed, which causes the project to fail to start. Does anyone have any idea on why there might be differences in the build results between the two methods?
For reference, the build server is executing a command like
MSBuild MySolution.sln /p:Configuration=Release,DefineConstants="SOMETHING" /t:Rebuild /tv:4.0
I get the same results when invoking this on my development machine, too, so it seems to be a peculiarity with MSBuild and/or Visual Studio. I've tried variations like
MSBuild MySolution.sln /p:Configuration=Release,DefineConstants="SOMETHING",AutoGenerateBindingRedirects=true /t:Rebuild /tv:4.0
to no avail.
I'm trying to build V8 as part of ArangoDB using the official build scripts and following the official Windows build instructions.
The compilation fails for all v8* targets (v8-build.bat):
msbuild All.sln /t:v8 /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
msbuild All.sln /t:v8_libbase /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
msbuild All.sln /t:v8_libplatform /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
error MSB4057: The target "v8" does not exist in the project.
If I open the solution file in Visual Studio, it looks like this:
I can build v8, v8_libbase and v8_libplatform just fine in VS.
Windows 7 64bit
Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate
Cygwin 2.2.0
cmake 3.3.1
You can run
set MSBuildEmitSolution=1
msbuild All.sln /t:v8
Then search in the generated All.sln.metaproj file the exact target names (<Target Name="">) of all projects you want to build. v8 can have a name like _tools_\_gyp_\v8. After that you can build projects
msbuild All.sln /t:"_tools_\_gyp_\v8" /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
The correct way to specify a target/project if it's in a solution folder is:
msbuild all.sln /t:PATH\TO\PROJECT
But in case of (tools) and (gyp) it's simply not possible, because msbuild can't handle parentheses in the target parameter /t.
So either remove ( ) and specify the path like tools\gyp\v8, or get rid of the solution folders entirely. If the solution is flat, /t:v8 will work.
Unfortunately, both the wrapping of folder names with brackets as well as the generation of non-flat .sln are hardcoded in gyp, which generated my all.sln. There is no switch to control whether solution folders are created or not. It will create them if the target version of Visual Studio is known to support this kind of nesting.
Workaround: Force flat solution generation in gyp, see
https://github.com/arangodb/arangodb/commit/796d2d263db6271142d954c8c99b9dec0fbe75e9
Reported errors to Microsoft/msbuild and Google/gyp:
https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/issues/157
https://code.google.com/p/gyp/issues/detail?id=494
#dothebart and this post helped me a lot to figure it out, thank you!
In VS2013 use
msbuild All.sln /p:Project=v8;Configuration=Release;Platform=x64
I want to create a batch file that builds several Visual Studio 2010 projects. My project property sheet is setup to use opencv, and building from Visual Studio works fine, but when I run the MSBuild command from cmd, it doesn't find the OpenCV header files. I get many of the following messages:
c:\proj\libproj\cvtrack.cpp(26): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'cv.h': No such file or directory [C:\proj\libproj\libproj.vcxproj]
Any ideas?
I fixed this by adding the following parameter to the MSBuild command, /p:Configuration=Release
, and then changein the project's Release properties.
I am trying to specify an additional folder to look for references when doing a command-line compile with MSBuild.
cmd> msbuild LurReports.sln /t:Rebuild /p:AdditionalLibPaths=C:\Radio;TargetFrameworkVersion=v2.0
For whatever reasons, msbuild completely ignores the C:\Radio folder when looking for references. What am I missing here?
This box does not have Visual Studio installed
The .sln is VS2008 and I am compiling it against.NET 2.0.
I also tried double quotes around the path.