Can I make &msbuild fail if it actually fails?

[Mikael Henriksson]

Hi,

I have a little something that has been very irritating. Can someone tell me how to solve this?

I don't know how to make msbuild fail if it actually fails to give you an example:

[15:06:01]: Executing task: PrepareTests

[15:06:02]: Executing task: StageTest

[15:06:02]: Missing Assembly: PlaynGO.KnowYourCustomer.Specs.dll

[15:06:02]: Executing task: StageRelease

[15:06:02]: Build Succeeded!

[15:06:02]: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

[15:06:02]: Build Time Report

[15:06:02]: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

[15:06:03]: Name Duration

[15:06:03]: ---- --------

[15:06:03]: Clean 00:00:00.0774106

[15:06:03]: Init 00:00:00.8171058

[15:06:03]: Compile 00:00:16.0259708

[15:06:03]: PrepareTests 00:00:16.8269866

[15:06:03]: StageTest 00:00:17.5453679

[15:06:03]: StageRelease 00:00:17.6066058

[15:06:03]: stage 00:00:17.6087522

[15:06:03]: Total: 00:00:18.0606700

[15:06:03]: Process exited with code 0

[15:06:03]: Publishing artifacts

Thats all good and well but it's a lie. Reason:

[15:06:00]: Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 3.5.30729.1

[15:06:00]: [Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.4200]

[15:06:00]: Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2007. All rights reserved.

[15:06:01]: CSC : error CS2001: Source file 'Product.cs' could not be found

[15:06:01]: CopyFilesToOutputDirectory:

 

[James Kovacs]

Are you wrapping msbuild in exec {}?

task compile -depends clean {
  exec { msbuild Foo.sln }
}

By default, PowerShell doesn't recognize non-zero exit codes from executables as an error. The exec {} function turns non-zero last exit codes into an exception so expected exception handling can occur.

HTH,
James
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[Mikael Henriksson]

Hi James,

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll update my build scripts accordingly.