This is using C# coded using Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Professional
I have an XML file used as a configuration in my program that I am coding. The executable reads and writes to the XML file. So I would naturally like to have an automatic process where the XML file is moved from where it resides among of the source to where the compiled executable will be built. I imagine the moving of the xml file could be done during the pre-build or post-build process. And so, I tried adding some "xcopy" messages in the "Build Events" box that is found in the Properties setting of the project file. Another optioni, I assume, is to edit the project file by hand using a text editor. But I am not accustomed to the scripting language of this code. When I tried to type the pre-build commands I tried:
xcopy config.xml $(OutDir)config.xml
and the error during the Build is
The command "xcopy config.xml bin\x64\Debug\config.xml" exited with code 4.
Please help.
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I have a Visual Studio 2013 solution with the full Orchard source code. When I use "Publish..." on the "Orchard.Web" project in Visual Studio, it correctly publishes the site to the File System destination I've configured into the .PubXml file that I used.
However, if I build this site using Jenkins, the files do not get copied to the destination. I've created a separate PubXml file that is used by Jenkins.
In my Jenkins job, I have two Build steps of interest. The first uses the src\Orchard.sln file with a command line argument of /p:Configuration=Release. This runs correctly, and builds the entire solution.
The second Build step, immediately after, uses the Build File of src\Orchard.Web\Orchard.Web.csproj and these command line arguments:
/p:DeployOnBuild=true
/p:PublishProfile="D:\workspace\Site\trunk\src\Orchard.Web\Properties\PublishProfiles\Jenkins.pubxml"
/p:VisualStudioVersion=12.0
/p:Configuration=Release
/p:Platform=AnyCPU
/v:minimal
/nologo
/p:WarningLevel=1
With this, the build and deploy seems to work - but doesn't. Here are some lines from the build output:
Copying all files to temporary location below for package/publish:
obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp.
Auto ConnectionString Transformed obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp\Shapes\Scripts\Web.config into obj\Release\CSAutoParameterize\transformed\Shapes\Scripts\Web.config.
(... about 200 more "Auto ConnectionString..." lines...)
Finished: SUCCESS
No where does it actually copy the files to the destination defined in the PUBXML file.
In contrast, in Visual Studio, the output looks similar, but transforms only 4 config files and includes lots of "Publishing folder x" lines:
(...)
Transformed Modules\SH.GoogleAnalytics\web.config using ....
Copying all files to temporary location below for package/publish:
obj\Release\Package\PackageTmp.
Publishing folder /...
Publishing folder bin...
(etc.)
(I have installed the latest Windows Azure SDK for .NET on the Jenkins server.)
I have the same trouble,that work for me:
/t:Rebuild
/p:DeployOnBuild=true
/p:PublishProfile=Jenkins_Publish
/p:Configuration=Release
do not use /p:VisualStudioVersion=xxx
This is kind of old, but I actually just set up Orchard to be able to get built via command line and MSBuild. Here is what I did:
/p:VisualStudioVersion=12.0;PublishProfile="example-profile";DeployProjA=true;FrameworkPathOverride="C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v4.5";Configuration=Release;PublishProfileRootFolder=c:\Workspace\src\Orchard.Web\Properties\PublishProfiles;Password=ExamplePass
Since you are using Orchard you want to make sure that only the Orchard.Web project gets published so do not use DeployOnBuild=true. This will attempt to deploy every web project in the solution, which is a lot for Orchard. Instead follow the guidelines here to see how to deploy only the web project: http://sedodream.com/2013/03/06/HowToPublishOneWebProjectFromASolution.aspx
I have a project for which I need to build two executables: one under Delphi XE2 and one under XE3. I have a build script which builds each version (i.e. one script for XE2 and one for XE3).
If I run the build script for the last version of the IDE I ran, all works well (i.e. run Delphi XE2, build app, run XE2 build script).
However if I run the build script having just run a different version of the IDE I get an AV as soon as my app starts (I.e. run Delphi XE2, built app, run XE3 build script).
It looks as though something about the build script is being cached/modified by the IDE and I need to restore the appropriate data for the version I want to build with. I've tried this with the .dproj, but no luck.
Or could it be loading form resources - both editions show errors due to non-existent properties at start up if the IDE. If so, is there an easy way around this without having maintain multiple versions of all the .fmx files?
Here's a sample build script:
set path=%path%;c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5
set path=%path%;c:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\10.0
set path=%path%;c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\RAD Studio\10.0
set BDS=c:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\10.0
set FrameworkDir=c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\
set FrameworkVersion=v3.5
set failed=false
cd \myprogs\monkeystyler
msbuild monkeystyler.dproj /t:build /p:config=full||set failed=true
cd build
if not %failed%==true goto Done
echo ****FAILED TO BULD MONKEYSTYLER
****
Pause
exit
:done
Let's take a look at this line in your XE3 script:
set path=%path%;c:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\10.0
My guess is that you follow that up in the XE2 script with:
set path=%path%;c:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\9.0
At which point your path variable looks like this:
set path=%path%;c:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\10.0;c:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\9.0
And so the second script fails because the paths from the first script appear earlier.
The elegant way to fix this is to use setlocal and endlocal in your scripts to isolate them from each other.
setlocal
set path=%path%;c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5
set path=%path%;c:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\10.0
.....
endlocal
The hacky way to fix it is to set the path like this:
set path=c:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\10.0;%path%
Please use the elegant approach!
What's more you should use pushd and popd to isolate directory changes to each script.
If this doesn't solve everything, do give more information. For a start, error messages are very useful.
The last IDE that you run will update the EnvOption.proj in your <user>\AppData\Roaming\Embarcadero\BDS\<version>folder.
This contains all your search paths, among other things.
This file is indirectly included in your project. So if you run say XE2's IDE then compile your XE3 app, you will get the wrong paths.
You will probably want to disable that and explicitly specify your search paths in each project's dproj file.
e.g. msbuild myproj.proj /p:ImportEnvOptions=false
This is my best guess. Sorry if it's 5 years too late. I have just struggled with similar issues!
All the best
Steve
I went back to my suspicion that it was the form file resources.
My theory was that the with the form files saved by the 'wrong' version of the IDE, when a project built with a different version tried to load them I was getting access violations due to the app trying to load data for properties which where not available in that edition.
To test this I got compiled the project successfully in one version of the IDE (XE3 in this case), did my automated build and tested that the app ran (it did).
I then loaded a .fmx file for the project and added a non-existent property to the form.
Build and the app fails same as before.
Remove the added property and build now succeeds.
All (!) I need to do now is write some code to parse the form files and remove any non-existent properties for the version I'm building.
Problem description:
Consider the following command line call (called for Delphi 2009 compiler):
dcc32.exe --no-config --peflags:1 Project.dpr
Will this call use the Project.dproj or Project.dof configuration files ?
If yes, will the command line options take precedence over the configuration file(s) ?
If not, where the build configuration will be taken from if the dcc32.cfg file is not loaded in this case ?
Problem background:
I know that MSBuild should be used since Delphi 2007 but in fact, it's the reason why I'm asking. I found that InnoSetup uses this batch file for building its projects and I have serious problems to link the JEDI JVCL library to it (it's a pure nightmare). So I'd like to configure the project settings to use MSBuild, but I'm not sure what build settings are used in the above command line call.
--no-config means that dcc32.cfg is not loaded, neither from the compiler executable directory, nor from the project directory.
The rules for applying options specified in .dproj and .dof files are not affected. Those options are applied and any command line options take precedence.
It seems to me that what I'm trying to achieve is incredibly simple, yet is becoming incredibly painful.
I have ProjectA which is a BlackBerry Application project. I have ProjectB which is a Java library project. I want to refer to ProjectB from ProjectA. I can add a reference but when I run ProjectA, it doesn't work. I have source code for both the projects and both are compiled using Java compiler 1.4
I have tried multiple things but everything fails for some reason:
1. pre-verify.exe on ProjectB
It fails with an error "JAR file creation failed with error -1" I can see that the cod and jar files have been created but when add the jar file to ProjectA and run it, it doesn't work. Not sure if I need to add the .cod file.
2. Create new BlackBerry Library Project and reference it in ProjectA
I create a new project ProjectC and then add the jar of ProjectB to it. Then I add a reference to ProjectC in ProjectA. But I cant import classes from ProjectB
Pls suggest a way out.
I'm using Eclipse Plug-in and relying on Eclipse's build capabilities
Figured out answer myself. Publishing here in case someone stumbles upon this. Here are the steps:
Create your library and export as JAR (or download the 3rd party JAR)
Run preverify.exe on the JAR
preverify.exe -verbose -classpath "C:/Program Files/Research In Motion/BlackBerry JDE 5.0.0/lib/net_rim_api.jar" jarname.jar
If you are lucky, you won't run into any issues and you will be done. But I wasn't lucky enough. I got the below error
Error: No such file or directory. JAR file creation failed with error -1
There are two possible causes of this:
jar.exe is not added to your PATH. If so, add it (found in your JAVA
installation directory) to PATH
cvfm or -cfm option on jar.exe fails to execute. I'm not aware of the reason but the way to fix this is to use -cf option, point to the .class files but don't use the manifest file. here is an
example:
"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26\bin\jar.exe" -cf "output\json-1.0.jar" tmp12996/
tmp12996 contains the preverified .class files.
You may run into different issues other than the one I've listed above.
Once jar is created from above step, make sure that it's structure is as you anticipate. One way to check is to rename the .jar to .zip, unzip it and then check it. If it is not as you need, you can change the structure and then repack it (I wouldn't do any major changes though)
Then add this newly built jar to your BlackBerry application as a reference i.e. add to Java Build Path in your eclipse and Check it in Order and Export window.
That's it! You are good to go! Run you app!
You may face error indicating that the module contains verification errors when you try to run in the simulator. One possible cause of this issue is that your library (the original JAR) contains APIs that are not compatible with J2ME or BB JRE. You may not get a compiler error when you build your library independently as it is compiled against Java 1.4 (or whatever your version is). Best to figure the issue out is to move all your code into your BB App project and then build it. That will tell you all the issues upfront. You make the changes as required and then move the code back to the library. If you don't have source code for the library you are using (like a 3rd party library), you may be out of luck! Also remember that there could be other issues than what I've hit upon and solved.
I'm documenting this at length as it has taken an awful amount of time for me to figure all this out; and to say the least, was most frustrating!
I found another solution. If you get error -1 while preverifying your JAR file, just run your library application once. Because if you don't run the application, the deliverables folder will be empty. Make sure this folder is not empty.
I’m using a few custom MSBuild tasks that are checked into source control. I would like to import these tasks into my TFSBuild.proj file that TFS uses to build the project. Right now I have created a 2nd project file that includes all of the uses of these custom tasks. I do this because I can run this project file after the workspace has been created and the files have been downloaded.
Is there a way to reference the files on the server from the build project so that I don’t have to do this 2 step process?
I wish the following would work.
<Import Project="$/My/Server/Path/Custom.tasks.targets" />
This question is related to another question. In my case the tasks are checked into source control so that the build machines don't have another required install. Placing the tasks locally doesn't work very well in this case.
If you put the tasks and the .targets file(s) in the same version control folder as your TFSBuild.proj file (or in a sub-directory beneath it), TFS Build will download all of that content to your build agent prior to kicking off your build script.