RE: [Nant-users] Post-build events in .NET csproj causing build failures

[Mark . Gibson]

My choice has been not to use PostBuild steps wherever possible.  I don't like them as they are opaque to the build process, especially when run within NAnt.  I always write targets in any NAnt build scripts to handle this sort of post build processing.  Reasons are:

 

    - it's a lot easier to manage,

    - you can see what will be done by reading the build file and only the build file,

    - tracing errors becomes easier as there is now only one point of failure (the NAnt script).

 

I know this doesn't really answer your question, but I thought it worth bringing up as a potential discussion point.

 

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy)
Sent: 26 September 2005 11:01
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nant-users] Post-build events in .NET csproj causing build failures

Hi,

I was able to get to the root of this problem but I don't know the reason for this.

The problem seems to be this.

I have a simple copy command which copies a tlb (auto-generated) from the proj output

folder to the common binaries folder. This is specified as a post-build event in the C#

project file. When I build from the IDE everything is fine.

 

Now in the case of my Nant-build file, it blows up saying source file for copy not found.

The problem turned out to be different current folders

in each case (I added a cd command at the top).

 

IDE Build - Post-build event default path/current folder
E:\CGC\RootBuild\Src\DA\GCDA\bin\Debug

 

Nant build - Post-build event default path/current folder
E:\GC\RootBuild\bin\debug - which is the common output folder for my binaries

<solution configuration="${BuildConfig}" solutionfile="${SolutionFilePath}" verbose="false" outputdir="${OutputDir}">

                                                                                                                                                                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^

Any tips will help me get by CI server up and running :)

Thanks,

Gishu Pillai

 

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