bash: msbuild: command not found

Question

Having a problem with adding msbuild to git bash for Win10

already added msbuild to system vars and to path too

CMD msbuild calls fine

already tried this solution

Answer 1

If you are using cmder with bash, then you could define an alias like

alias msbuild='msbuild.exe'

(the path to msbuild.exe must be already set in PATH)

Answer 2

Use msbuild.exe in Git Bash instead of msbuild.

Answer 3

I'm using Visual Studio 2017 for WPF development and I just wanted to build any .net framework application/library from git bash.
So, I just copied the following files
from: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\Bin
into: C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin folder and it worked like a charm:

Then, just go to any of your .csproj projects and run msbuild command in your git bash.

Hope it helps.

Answer 4

If you want to refer to an environment variable you need to prefix it with $, like $msbuild. I'm not sure that is the best idea though, nor modifying the system path: what if you have different versions of msbuild?

Anyway, your real problem is that the command isn't msbuild, it is MSBuild.exe. And a convenient way of adding it to the mingw environment is making sure it is already in the path before starting bash. For example, create a batch file 'msbuild-git-bash.bat' in the same directory as git-bash.bat, containing

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"
git-bash.bat

then use that instead and type msbu and hit tab to get command completion:

Note this example is for VS2013, for other versions the path to vsdevcmd.bat will be different but the principle is the same. Also because of using it, nmake/cl/link/... are also all available.