MSBuild Error - The system cannot find the path specified

Mike Jewell

01 Jun, 2015 04:01 AM

Hi, the build had been working with no issues until today. After the update to Appveyor, the build stopped working with the following:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe" "src\Solution.sln" /verbosity:minimal /logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll"
The system cannot find the path specified.
Command exited with code 1

All was working for the last 3 weeks on this build. Haven't tried the others.

Please let me know if you need more details.

Cheers

Mike

  1. #1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 01 Jun, 2015 04:12 AM

    Hi Mike,

    Is it Visual Studio 2015 solution?

  2. #2 Posted by Mike Jewell on 01 Jun, 2015 04:13 AM

    Hi Feodor,

    Yes it is. Have I missed something obvious in the update email?

  3. #3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 01 Jun, 2015 04:16 AM

    Well, VS 2015 solution were supposed to build on Visual Studio 2015 RC image. However, I see the issue - if there is nothing VS 2015 specific it should be working fine on Pro environment where VS 2015 is not installed...

  4. #4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 01 Jun, 2015 04:18 AM

    Will fix that shortly - hold on.

  5. #5 Posted by Mike Jewell on 01 Jun, 2015 04:21 AM

    Actually, originally it was a 2013 solution. I started using 2015 just before I configured the build (I think...). It isn't using anything VS2015 specific, they are simple class libraries used as nuget packages.

    It is currently on a Windows 2012 R2 image (default). I'll hang on before I try anything as you've advised.

    Cheers

  6. #6 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 01 Jun, 2015 04:22 AM

    Yeah, I'll disable that MSBuild 14.0 for now. We'll let you know when it's done.

  7. #7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 01 Jun, 2015 05:28 AM

    It should be fine now.

  8. #8 Posted by Mike Jewell on 01 Jun, 2015 06:14 AM

    Thanks for that, works again.

  9. #9 Posted by david.podhola on 15 Oct, 2015 08:52 AM

    I am probably missing something obvious, but C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0 has Microsoft.Common.Targets subfolder only on my https://ci.appveyor.com/project/davidpodhola/utop project (see the screenshot attached). Visual Studio 2015 solution, Environment - Operating System: Visual Studio 2015.
    Should I get there one from https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild?

  10. #10 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 15 Oct, 2015 01:45 PM

    Hi David,

    Do you use appveyor.yml for configuring the project?

    - Feodor

  11. #11 Posted by david.podhola on 15 Oct, 2015 01:48 PM

  12. #12 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 15 Oct, 2015 01:50 PM

    OK, great. Then "os: Visual Studio 2015" should be specified there as UI settings are ignored when appveyor.yml is used.

    - Feodor

  13. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:00 AM.

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