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Reputation: 8914

can build using visual studio ide but cannot build using devenv.com

i'm using VS 2008. I can compile my solution using the IDE successfully. However, when I try to build it using devenv.com, it fails saying that "ERROR: Cannot find outputs of project output group '(unable to determine name)'. Either the group, its configuration, or its project may have been removed from the solution." while building a .vdproj setup project.

A similar problem is here

any ideas to fix this? thx

Edit: Actually cruisecontrol.net tries to build the solution using devenv.com. Here is the devenv section i use in ccnet.config:

<devenv>
      <solutionfile>xxxxx.sln</solutionfile>
      <configuration>Debug</configuration>
      <buildtype>Build</buildtype>
      <executable>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.com</executable>
      <buildTimeoutSeconds>60000</buildTimeoutSeconds>
      <version>VS2008</version>
    </devenv>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3043

Answers (3)

Frank Thompson
Frank Thompson

Reputation: 1

I had similar problem and issue and was able to resolve by providing both the solution file and the project file in the command.

This is documentation for devenv Command Reference

And this is the code used to fix (written in powershell):

$project = "<full path to setup project>"
$sln = "<full path to solution file>"
devenv.com $sln /build "Release" /project $path

Upvotes: 0

Pondidum
Pondidum

Reputation: 11617

Have you tried using the MSBuild task instead of VisualStudio? I have always had better results with MSBuild, especially as it means you do not need VisualStudio installed on your Build Machine.

Here is a generic config based off what I use:

<msbuild>
    <executable>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe</executable>
    <workingDirectory>D:\dev\your\path\</workingDirectory>
    <projectFile>xxxx.sln</projectFile>
    <buildArgs>/v:m /noconlog /p:Configuration=Debug</buildArgs>
    <targets>Build</targets>
    <!--<logger>C:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\server\Rodemeyer.MsBuildToCCNet.dll</logger>-->
    <!-- If you dont have that logger for CruiseControl, you should try it :) -->
</msbuild>

If this does not work, you can also run it from a command line:

>cd "D:\dev\your\path\"
>D:
>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe /v:m /p:Configuration=Debug xxxxx.sln

You can change the v (Verbosity) flag to something higher to get more output if you need (see msdn article on MSBuild here).

Upvotes: 0

Sebastiaan M
Sebastiaan M

Reputation: 5885

It sounds like you have an invalid argument in the command line you pass to devenv.com.

Does it work ok if you create a new solution with a simple hello world project?

Cheers,

Sebastiaan

Upvotes: 0

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