warrenbuckley/setup-msbuild

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow to add MSBuild.exe into the PATH

setup-MSBuild

This action sets up MSBuild.exe as a CLI tool for use in actions by:

• optionally downloading and caching a version of VSWhere.exe to help find the latest MSBuild on the machine
• Adds the location of the MSBuild to the PATH

Status: Archived

This GitHub action is now retired/archived as I have collobrated directly with Microsoft to release an official MSBuild GitHub Action https://github.com/microsoft/setup-msbuild https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-msbuild-exe

Usage

Basic:

steps:
name: ASP.NET CI
on: [push]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: windows-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master

    - name: Setup MSBuild.exe
      uses: warrenbuckley/Setup-MSBuild@v1

    - name: MSBuild
      working-directory: src
      run: msbuild MyProject.csproj

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! See Contributor's Guide

setup-msbuild's Issues

error ASPCONFIG: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.WebPages, Version=2.0.0.0,

See: https://github.com/Jeff-Tian/blogengine.net/runs/429701702?check_suite_focus=true

I use this action to build a solution file, which claims:

"D:\a\blogengine.net\blogengine.net\Source\BlogEngine\BlogEngine.sln" (default target) (1) ->
"D:\a\blogengine.net\blogengine.net\Source\BlogEngine\BlogEngine_NET.metaproj" (default target) (2) ->
(Build target) -> 
  D:\a\blogengine.net\blogengine.net\Source\BlogEngine\BlogEngine.NET\web.config(96): error ASPCONFIG: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.WebPages, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. [D:\a\blogengine.net\blogengine.net\Source\BlogEngine\BlogEngine_NET.metaproj]

    68 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:33.85
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.

How can I fix it?

Thanks for helping!

Question

Hi there, sorry for the interruption (this is not really a bug but a question).

Recently I've fixed my Windows build by doing this simple change to the path of MSBuild.exe: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57722042/544947 .

However, it seems that path is not present in the Windows machine/container being used by GithubActions. Do you mind giving me the canonical MSBuild.exe path for this? I would prefer not to depend on VSWhere.exe or GithubActions extensions.

Thanks in advance.

Works great!

Thank you for this! It seems to work well. I'm using it in the Yarn repo here: yarnpkg/berry#430

Update vswhere or add an option to specify vswhere version

The current version this action uses is 2.7.1, which isn't the latest.