Visual Studio 2017 Community - unable to build project

[Steve Edwards]

Hi guys,

I have installed VS 2017 Community edition and the VSIX for VS 2017 as per this post https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/migrated-by-firefly/ZTfNNcfoH6o/jP7LNiF1DwAJ;context-place=searchin/migrated-by-firefly/common$20tools%7Csort:date

But i cannot build the solution. My solution has many projects and the Base and ENV projects both build individually but the other projects do not.

I get the following build errors: -

The command "call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\..\tools\vsvars32.bat"

  rem editbin.exe /NXCOMPAT:NO "C:\Development\VisionOne\dlls\VisionOne.exe"" exited with code -1.

Cannot determine the location of the VS Common Tools folder.

I've checked the references against each project and they are all fine; there are no exclamation marks. 

Can anyone assist with this please?

Thanks,

Steve

[Harry Kleinsmit]

Hi Steve,

 

This is a known problem with VS 2015 & VS 2017.

See http://doc.fireflymigration.com/build-error-vsvars32.bat-editbin.html on how to solve it.

 

Best regards,

Harry Kleinsmit.

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[Steve Edwards]

Hi Harry,

Thanks for posting that but even after following the steps i'm still getting the same build errors.

Steve

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[Steve Edwards]

Further update... 

The individual projects now all build as does Base and ENV; it's just the Default Project that won't build now.

It looks like the vsvars32.bat file could be at fault?

Anyone?

Steve

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[Harry Kleinsmit]

Hi Steve,

 

Did you check the 'post-build event command line' at the projects properties - Build Events? Perhaps something wrong there.

I assume you are doing a build from VS? Does it work when you use the Friefly batch files to build the whole application?

Else check the buildDebug.bat or buildRelease.bat and the msbuild.xml for any inconsistencies. It might be easier to debug those.

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[Steve Edwards]

Hi Harry,

I have looked into this and it's definitely around the area within the project build events where the problem is. I believe there is an issue with the path to the DevEnvDir to locate the file vsvars32.bat. I ended up putting the full path i.e. call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext\vcvars.bat" (NOTE: VS 2017 community edition paths have changed and it's no longer called vcvars32.bat just vcvars.bat). I then enabled Normal logging within Tools \ Options \ Projects and Solutions \ Build and Run \ MSBuild project build output verbosity and built again which in turn gave me the error "[ERROR:vcvars.bat] Unknown host architecture '' via the output log.

Finally i removed everything within the Post-build event command line and i guess unsurprisingly the solution now builds.

I can't understand why all the other projects including Base and ENV all have the same command line within Post-build event and build but yet the default project won't.

Anyway, right now the solution builds and bar anyone advising i shouldn't remove the Post-build event i will be continuing with some devs!!

Thanks for your help :)

Regards,

Steve

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[Noam Honig]

Hi Steven,

I've updated the article to also articulate what that post build event is good for and how to fix it in your case.

It's there to solve weird external dll problems - I don't think you need it - so I think you can safely remove it.

Here's a link to that article:

http://doc.fireflymigration.com/build-error-vsvars32.bat-editbin.html

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[Steve Edwards]

Hi Noam,

Thank you for clearing that up. I’m sure this will help other users going forward as they move to newer versions of VS. 

Cheers 😊

Steve 

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[Steve Edwards]

Hi Noam,

Thank you for clearing that up. I’m sure this will help other users going forward as they move to newer versions of VS. 

Cheers 😊

Steve 

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