Do you get an error with nant that looks like this:
[nant] C:\projects\...\Build-Scripts\......nant.build build
Buildfile: file:///C:/projects/.../Build-Scripts/....nant.build
Target framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Target(s) specified: build
build:
[echo] Building '...': build.defines:'DEBUG;TRACE', dir.builddestination:'C:\projects\...\Source\build\...-debug-bin', build.debug:False
[csc] Compiling 17 files to 'C:\projects\...\Source\build\...-debug-bin\....dll'.
BUILD FAILED
'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin\resgen.exe' failed to start.
The system cannot find the file specified
I ran into this because I only installed VS2008 on this machine and a whacky VS2005 shell gets installed by SQL 2005 that has screwed up multiple tools, one of them is nant. To fix nant do the following:
Find NAnt.exe.config in the same directory as nant.exe. Find the element that begins
<framework
name="net-2.0"
...
Within that element you'll find the following:
<project>
<readregistry
property="installRoot"
key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\InstallRoot"
hive="LocalMachine" />
<readregistry
property="sdkInstallRoot"
key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\sdkInstallRootv2.0"
hive="LocalMachine"
failonerror="false" />
</project>
Note how it looks in the registry for sdkInstallRootv2.0. In my registry that was pointed to a VS2005 directory which doesn't actually have a full SDK. I pointed it to the new SDK paths Microsoft is using, in my case C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\ , and then my project worked (well at least it got further than it did :) )
I hope this saves somebody some time!
5 comments:
Much appreciated, this had me stumped!
Very helpful.
One slight change I made was to just add an sdkInstallRootv3.5 and then updated the Nant.exe.config. I have risk averse when it comes to changing registry entries.
Great idea Joseph! Much cleaner way to solve this.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for this post. I ended up copying resgen.exe from \Microsoft\.NETFramework\sdkInstallRootv2.0\bin to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin. I don't know if that's the best solution, but the nant build suceeded after doing so. Thanks again!
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