So I went onto the internet to find out how to export my libgdx project from android studio, and I learned that you can generate it by using the command gradlew desktop:dist. But when I type this into the terminal window in android studio, it says, 'gradlew' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Why is this happening?
This is happening because the terminal can't find the gradlew program. If you're using Linux, make sure to type ./gradlew- but my guess is that you're using windows.
First, use your file browser to navigate to your project directory and make sure that gradlew.bat is present. If it isn't, you don't have gradlew as part of your project and need to go get it from The Gradle Website.
If you have gradlew.bat, make sure that your terminal is navigated to your project directory. On windows you can see where it is currently pointed using echo %cd% - if it doesn't show your current directory, you need to use the cd command to navigate to your project directory.
You can also confirm you're in the right place by running dir in the terminal- you should see gradlew.bat.
I'm building an iOS Xamarin app from the command line. The *designer.cs files have been removed.
What command do I run to regenerate the *.designer.cs files?
Encountered in Xamarin Studio 6
Based on this forum thread the fairly awkward sequence that worked for me was
rename the ViewController specified in the storyboard
save and close the solution
remove bin and obj directories
rebuild
There are actually 3 questions in this topic:
If you want to build from command line is explained in this topic: How do you do a command line build of a Xamarin.iOS project?
To ignore *.designer.cs you can add a pattern to your .git file called git ignore: http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
To regenerate the designer files you can simply rebuild your solution.
For Xamarin Studio 5.8, if you edit the file that originated the designer.cs, save again and rebuild the project it will regenerate the designer.cs
I'm working on a project that requires that DLLs generated by building my solution to be copied from the bin folder to another folder, both of which are on my machine, in my C drive. I've written a batch file that uses xcopy to accomplish this, which you can see here:
xcopy /s /y /q "C:\Users\scogan\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Organizr\Server\bin\Debug\Organizr.Services.dll" "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AppServer\bin\"
xcopy /s /y /q "C:\Users\scogan\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Organizr\Server\bin\Debug\Organizr.Services.pdb" "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AppServer\bin\"
Now, I've tried numerous iterations of this file, which is located at:
C:\Users\scogan\Desktop\CopyFiles.bat
so my post-build event command line looks like this:
call C:\Users\scogan\Desktop\CopyFiles.bat
I've run this batch file on its own with two text files in folders on my desktop, and it works fine. I've also run it as it is with the files I need to copy on its own, and that works fine, too. However, when I try to run this as a post-build event, I get this output:
1> Organizr -> C:\Users\scogan\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Organizr\Client\bin\Debug\Organizr.exe
1> File not found - Organizr.Services.dll
1> 0 File(s) copied
1> 0 File(s) copied
1> File not found - Organizr.Services.pdb
1>c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets(4291,5): error MSB3073: The command "call C:\Users\scogan\Desktop\CopyFiles.bat" exited with code 4.
I've done some research, and found that error code 4 means that "Initialization error occurred. There is not enough memory or disk space, or you entered an invalid drive name or invalid syntax on the command line."
I've also looked up what MSB3073 is, and haven't really found much that can help me there. So, my question is what am I doing wrong? Are the absolute paths messing it up? Any help here is appreciated.
Playing around with different project properties, I found that the project build order was the problem. The project that generated the files I wanted to copy was built second, but the project that was running the batch file as a post-build event was built first, so I simply attached the build event to the second project instead, and it works just fine. Thanks for your help, everyone, though.
Prefer the MsBuild "Copy" task in an AfterBuild target over a post-build event.
Append this Target into your project file and remove the PostBuildEvent.
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<Copy SourceFiles="C:\Users\scogan\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Organizr\Server\bin\Debug\Organizr.Services.*"
DestinationFolder="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AppServer\bin\"
OverwriteReadOnlyFiles="true"
SkipUnchangedFiles="false" />
</Target>
For what it's worth, the problem in my case was caused by using '/' as the directory separator in a copy command. Must use backslashes.
In my case, the dll I was creating by building the project was still in use in the background. I killed the application and then xcopy worked fine as expected.
The specified error is related to the post built event. Somehow VS tool is not able to copy the files to the destination folder. There can be many reasons for it. To check the exact error cause go to Tools > Option> Project and Solution > Built and run, and change "MsBuild project build output verbosity" to "Diagnostic". It will give you enough information to detect the actual problem.
This is too late but posting my experience for people looking at it later:-
In MS VS 2010 I had the same issue. It got resolved by putting quotes to post build copy command args which contained spaces!
In Project Properties --> Configuration Properties --> Build Events --> Post-Build Event --> Command Line change:
copy $(ProjectDir)a\b\c $(OutputPath)
to
copy "$(ProjectDir)a\b\c" "$(OutputPath)"
If the problem still persists even after putting the after build in the correct project try using "copy" instead of xcopy. This worked for me.
The Post-Build Event (under Build Events, in the properties dialog) of an imported project, had an environment variable which was not defined.
Navigated to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System\Advanced system settings to add the appropriate environment variable, and doing no more than restarting VS2017 resolved the error.
Also, following on from #Seans and other answers regarding multiple project races/contentions, create a temp folder in the output folder like so,
and select the project producing the preferred output:
and build (no rebuild/clean) is a speedy solution.
Following thing you should do before to run copy command if you facing some issue with copy command
open solution as a administrator and build the solution.
if you have problem like "0 File(s) copied" check you source and destination path. might you are using wrong path. it would be better if you run the same command in "command prompt" to check whether it is working fine or not.
I solved it by doing the following:
In Visual studio I went in Project -> Project Dependencies
I selected the XXX.Test solution and told it that it also depends on the XXX solution to make the post-build events in the XXX.Test solution not generate this error (exit with code 4).
I've found the issue happens when you have multiple projects building in parallel and one or more of the projects are attempting to copy the same files, creating race conditions that will result in occasional errors. So how to solve it?
There's a lot of options, as above just changing things around could solve the issue for some people. More robust solutions would be...
Restrict the files being copied i.e. instead of xcopy $(TargetDir)*.*"... instead do xcopy "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).*"...
Catch the error and retry i.e:
:loop
xcopy /Y /R /S /J /Q "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).*" "somewhere"
if ErrorLevel 1 goto loop
Use robocopy instead of xcopy
You probably won't want to do this as it will increase your build times, but you could reduce the maximum number of parallel project builds to 1 ...
I had the same problem for my Test project. I found out why my post build event wasn't working and that's because I was copying files before running the $(ProjectName).exe command and some of these files were required for Test project itself. Hence, by just moving $(ProjectName).exe as the first command fix the issue.
I faced this issue recently and surprisingly only i was having this problem and none of my team members were facing this issue when building the project code.
On debugging i found that my code directory had spacing issue , It was D:\GIT Workspace\abc\xyz.
As a quick fix i changed it to D:\GITWS\abc\xyz and it solved the problem.
I was getting this error after downloading some source code from Github. Specifically the rust oxide development framework. My problem is that the Steam.ps1 script file, that's used to update some of the dlls from Steam was blocked by the OS. I had to open the files properties an UNBLOCK it. I had not realized this was done to ps1 files as well as exes.
In my case a setting mismatch between Project's Configuration Properties->General->Output Directory setting and Linker->General->Output Directory.
There was a warning about it during linking.
I was facing a similar issue where it said it cannot copy a DLL from my build location to destination. The issue was my project path contained spaces, removing them the error was gone.
Visual Studio 2010, in my project I made a custom build step which renames a dll file and copies it to other folder. So, Alt+F7, Config props, Custom Build Step / General, command line:
copy /y $(TargetPath) $(TargetName).node
It didn't do anything. Then I also added
ping bat.femei.ro -n 1 -w 5000
It still didn't do anything. It simply flashed a command prompt window for a split second then the window went away. I googled as much as I could concluding that there might be a problem with the folder where the batch file is generated.
I did my best to screenshot that split second with the command prompt and after a boring F7-PrintScreen-PasteInPaint session finally I got
C:\Users\FURAT\AppData\Local\Temp\blablablablablablablablabla.exec.cmd is not recognized as internal or external...
I double checked the directory. It has Everyone permissions set to Allow both Read & Write operations. What's wrong? How do I fix this?
I was unable to find any knobs to tweak temp folder path. It's not Env and it's not in the config either.
What did work however was running VS2010 as Administrator. Now the Custom Build Step works.
I'm trying to show the results of visual studio unit tests within CruiseControl. Here is the relevant part of my config:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\mstest.exe
C:\Build\Test\TestCases\
/testcontainer:H4Test\bin\debug\H4Test.dll /runconfig:localtestrun.Testrunconfig /resultsfile:H4Test\H4Results.trx
900
C:\Build\Test\TestCases\H4Test\H4Results.trx
The issue is that the H4Results.trx can only be created once, so every subsequent run just shows the results of the first run of the test cases. I need to specify the name so that I can do the merge command. How do I get this working?
Thanks,
Justin
Here's the answer, creating a bat file to delete the .trx each run:
http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/bm-bloggers/archive/2006/06/14/5255.aspx