Using dotnet build the project will not by recomplied if there are no changes:
Project {project name} was previously compiled. Skipping compilation.
Is it possible to force project to be recompiled? I have looked into command options, but haven't found any related parameters.
You should either switch the incremental compilation off by specifying the --no-incremental option (by default the incremental compilation is on which means that compiler will compile the code if it detects any changes in methods, etc) or clean up the output directory.
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On a Windows machine there is a GitLab-Runner run from a domain user with admin rights. When I log as this user and call dotnet build -c release to build an ASP.NET Core app, the dll has all the information from the AssemblyInfo.cs file. When I do the same as part of a CI job, the produced dll is missing all this information (for example the version number).
The AssemblyInfo.cs file is not part of the repository, instead, it is produced by a prebuild event (using gitWCRev.exe tool). However after running some tests I can see that the AssemblyInfo.cs is actually generated when the job is run by the runner.
Any help as to why the file is ignored and how to overcome this issue would be appreciated.
At first I thought that this might be related to Pre-build task of Visual Studio project fails in GitLab Runner issue, but I don't get any build errors.
On the same machine, I build a .Net Framework app which has the same AssemblyInfo setup, but is compiled using msbuild /property:Configuration=Release by the runner and the produced dll file has all the expected information.
It turns out the problem was partially related to the AssemblyInfo.cs file not being part of the repository.
SDK-style csproj normally don't list the files in the project, but figure them out based on the folder contents. When dotnet build was run, AssemblyInfo.cs wasn't present in the project directory (GitLab-Runner usually clears out files not present in the repository before starting a job/pipeline), so build tools had no idea they needed to load it. It made no difference that the file was being created by the build tools.
The solution proved to be creating an empty AssemblyInfo.cs file before running dotnet build. This way build tools knew they needed to compile it. Actual compilation still happened after prebuild events, so all the needed information was there.
I created the empty AssemblyInfo.cs file using PowerShell:
New-Item -Path "Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs" -ItemType File
Also, checking the build logs helped me finally figure it out. To get the build logs I've called build tools like this:
dotnet build -c release /flp:v=diag
The .Net Framework app didn't have this problem because it wasn't an SDK-style project. All the files needed for compilation were listed in the project file and build tools knew to load them, even if they were created during the prebuild event.
I have a larger project in which some *.qrc files are used and compiled using Qt's RCC. The project is configured via CMake as a Unix Makefile project.
When I build the program via make everything works without problems, but when I build via Cmake --build the corresponding files are not compiled. Unfortunately, CMake does not produce any output describing the problem (-verbose option is set). Does anyone have an idea what this could be? Could it be path variables? If so, how can I set them for the build process? What is the best way to debug such a problem?
To add the target I'm using qt5_add_binary_resources
The platform I am using is macOS.
We are attempting to install a clean build of the newest version of Kentico (12) on Azure, using Kudu, in DEBUG configuration. We traditionally accomplish this by setting SCM_BUILD_ARGS to -p:Configuration=Debug, and all is well. But for some reason in this newer version, the project fails to compile, and I see that this is the command being run:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe" "C:\Users\User\Documents\GitHub\Project\CMS\CMSApp.csproj" /nologo /verbosity:m /t:Build /t:pipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder /p:_PackageTempDir="C:\local\Temp\8d6d315018f5ff9";AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false /p:SolutionDir="C:\Users\User\Documents\GitHub\Project\.\\" -p:Configuration=Debug
Notice both Configuration=Release and Configuration=Debug. The compilation errors are things like Invalid expression term 'string' on the following line of code:
bool licenseOK = LicenseHelper.CheckLicenseLimitations(FeatureEnum.Ecommerce, out int skuCount, out int maxSKUCount);
This doesn't highlight at all in Visual Studio in Debug or Release mode. I am also able to reproduce locally (as shown in my paths above), and if I change the two configurations to both be the same (regardless of whether I choose Debug or Release), it compiles just fine.
What I know I can do is create my own custom deployment command script file as a work-around, but I guess I don't understand why the above MSBUILD command isn't working in the first place.
Any ideas as to why this would work great for all of my ASP.NET projects prior to this one? One thing I know is that Kentico recently included the Roslyn compiler, which I am unfortunately not that familiar with - could that be part of the issue?
UPDATE #1: It appears all of the compilation errors have to do with code that is only valid in C# 7.0. That could be a clue.
It all came down to the fact that the newer versions of Kentico had code that was only valid in C# 7, and required MSBuild 15 to compile. Here's how I was able to set up Kudu:
Add a file named .deployment in the root of my repo, containing only the contents below. This tells Kudu to use a custom deployment script.
Download the deploy.cmd file from my Azure App Service via FTP to the root of my repo, and update it per https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/issues/2350#issuecomment-373817740 to use the MSBuild 15 path. Details below.
.deployment file contents
[config]
command = deploy.cmd
deploy.cmd updates
1 - Add -MSBuildPath "%MSBUILD_15_DIR%" to nuget call. Example:
nuget.exe restore "{your .sln file path}" -MSBuildPath "%MSBUILD_15_DIR%"
2 - Replace %MSBUILD_PATH% with %MSBUILD_15_DIR%\MSBuild.exe in both occurrences under step 2. Build to the temporary path
This was all that was needed in order to get the build to complete.
As Keith mentions, it was a compatibility issue with C# 7.0 that Kentico 12 uses. This SO thread mentions that you need to run MSBuild version 15 for C# 7.0 code. I ran a similar debug command for my local Kentico 12 project using MSBuild 15, and it succeeded.
I have a solution with many projects. Some target frameworknetcoreapp2.1, some other target framework netstandard2.0 and one project has a double target framework
<TargetFrameworks>netstandard2.0;net471</TargetFrameworks>
I'd want to have a artifact for win10 with a single command:
dotnet publish MySolution.sln -c Release -o "targetFolder" -r win10-x64
With this command I have this error while building the project with double target framework. Here's the errors:
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.402\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.CrossTargeting.targets(31,5) error : The 'Publish' target is not supported without specifying a target framework. The current project targets multiple frameworks, please specify the framework for the published application.
The error is clear. At the end I find that dll compiled in the output directory and it seems like it is a netstandard2.0 dll because my application still works.
I don't like dirty things so, how can I solve my problem?
I would avoid to call N times the "dotnet publish" command if possible.
Don't use dotnet publish with the same output directory on a solution. Especially not with the "-r" argument.
It is dangerous because:
libraries don't have the right trimming behaviour for netstandard facade packages
libraries may have odd behaviour when publishing with "-r", especially for netstandard<2.0 dependencies. (they'd end up copying the .NET Core 1.0/1.1 implementation(!) assemblies)
you may end up with different NuGet dependencies in the output (transitive dependencies)
Copy-to-output/publish-directory items may end up overwriting each other, it may even lead to build failures
Call it individually for all application (console app, web app) projects or create an MSBuild file that publishes these applications.
I'm using the latest QT SDK under Windows and am wondering how I specify a working directory based on the build type. I need a different working directory and release and debug builds of the same project. For instance, I have a run target called MyProgram and two build targets, Release and Debug. MyProgram depends on some external libraries. When I run MyProgram in debug I need it to run in the directory C:\foo\bar\libraries\debug, however when I run it in release I need it to run in directory C:\foo\bar\libraries\release. It would appear that the Working Directory is only dependent on the run target and not on the build target. Is there a way to specify a Working Directory based on both run and build target? Could I use a variable to specify release/debug in the Working Directory?
Yes, you can. Delete the .pro.user file in the project directory, open the project, and set "Create build configurations" to manually, and check "Use shadow building". Now you can specify the target directories.
BTW, for a better solution for your missing libs, check out the Qt resource system: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/QResource.html