Cannot get teamcity to fail the build when msbuild fails.

[Stéphane Erbrech]

Hi,

I set up teamcity to use psake using the psake.cmd

Here is my psake.cmd:

@echo off
if '%1'=='/?' goto help
if '%1'=='-help' goto help
if '%1'=='-h' goto help 

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& '%~dp0\Scripts\Build\psake.ps1' %*; if ($psake.build_success -eq $false) { exit 1 } else { exit 0 }"
goto :eof 

 

:help
powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& '%~dp0\Scripts\Build\psake.ps1' -help"

 

my build tasks are described as follow : 

   

task CompileCommon {
exec { msbuild "$sln_file_common" /p:Configuration=$configuration }
}
task CompileClient {
exec { msbuild "$sln_file_client" /p:Configuration=$configuration }
}
task CompileServer {
exec { msbuild "$sln_file_server" /p:Configuration=$configuration }
}
task All -depends Clean, CompileCommon, CompileClient, CompileServer {
}

In TeamCity I have a Command line build step

 

Run : Executable with parameter

Command executable : psake.cmd

Command parameters : -t All

This was not failing the build, I added the following line in the psake.ps1 file as described in the github wiki

...

$psake.use_exit_on_error = $true

invoke-psake $buildFile $taskList $framework $docs $parameters $properties $initialization $nologo

This still doesn't fail the build.

There must be a simpler way to make psake "just work" on teamcity. What am I missing?

[James Kovacs]

Do you have msbuild wrapped in an "exec {}"? For example:

task build -depends clean {
  exec { msbuild <<params>> }
}

MSBuild is a plain old executable and doesn't throw exceptions like a PowerShell command would. Executables return their status through exit codes and PowerShell doesn't check exits codes. (Yes, this is very annoying.) So we have to wrap these calls in "exec {}", which checks the exit code and throws an exception on a non-zero exit code.

HTH,
James
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[Stéphane Erbrech]

I posted everything in my message, the msbuild calls are wrapped in exec. (see my task definitions)

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[James Kovacs]

Apologies. I should have read your message more closely. Which version of psake are you using? v4.1.0? I'll try debugging through this and want to make sure I have the right version.

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[Stéphane Erbrech]

yes, $psake.version = "4.1.0"

Thanks for your help

[Stéphane Erbrech]

I fixed my problem, Here is a blog post that explain my solution : Running directly the psake.ps1 using the powershell build step from teamcity.

There is also some extra tips that I found helpful about psake that aren't well documented.

Hopefully that can help someone.

http://alsagile.com/post/27403222324/using-psake-to-run-your-teamcity-continuous-integration 

[Darren Haken]

Can this be better documented on the wiki? I've lost around half a day of development trying to get this working.

yes, $psake.version = "4.1.0"

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