Relative path running a windows batch

[nietzsche44]

Hi, 

I am using Jenkins to build a C# project that includes a postbuild event that copies a file using a relative path: 

copy $(TargetPath) $(SolutionDir)..\CustomFolder\ 

But the copy fails because of the relative path ..\ 
I've made some tests executing a simple Windows batch command using relative path to copy a file, for example, and it doesn't work either. 

Could you give me a hint to solve this?? 

Thanx 

[Slide]

What happens if you build using devenv.exe instead of msbuild.exe?

Thanks,

slide

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[nietzsche44]

Hi slide,

Thanks for the answer. I am not sure about what you mean using devenv to build, as far as I know, using devenv in a command line opens the project/solution in a visual studio window.

Thank you very much

[Slide]

Please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b20w810z(v=vs.80).aspx

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[Qazwart]

Are you using parentheses or curly braces? Depending where your specifying this, the environment variable need curly braces or even surrounded by percent signs.

Where are you specifying this copy command?

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[nietzsche44]

Sorry slide I wasn't aware of that possibility, the problem is that I have not Visual Studio installed in the server.

 

David I am specifying the command in Visual Studio (the server downloads the code from the repository) in the tab Build Events, Post-Build event command line textbox.

 

Thank you very much

[Alex Earl]

How are you specifying your build? Are you passing an sln file to msbuild? If not, I am not sure msbuild will set the SolutionDir variable.

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From: nietzsche44
Sent: 8/21/2012 7:03 AM
To: jenkins...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Relative path running a windows batch

[nietzsche44]

Solved!!

 

Thats it, I am specifying the solution with the following command:

 

msbuild /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform="Any CPU" Test.sln

 

Finally the solution was easy, just add double quotes to the copy command, the problem was that when at the beginning I tried that the same problem occurred again but with another project with a similar name, so I got them mixed and thought it was not the solution,  I am sorry for bothering you.

 

copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)..\CustomFolder\"

 

Thank you very much for your help.