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Builds broken: "Platform" environment no longer exists

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Brian Reavis

30 Jul, 2014 03:16 AM

In the last day or two, the Platform environment variable disappeared... and this is breaking builds. This needs to exist to test for x64, x86 build configurations.

Affected repos:
https://github.com/naturalatlas/node-gdal
https://github.com/conda/conda
https://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik

Current ENV variables: https://gist.github.com/brianreavis/c9350994a5a4e5bfb6f9

1. 1 Posted by micah on 30 Jul, 2014 04:08 AM

   

   I am experiencing the same problem. My appveyor.yml looks something like:

   platform:
     - AnyCPU
   
   configuration:
     - Release
   

   When I attempt to build https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Zoltu/zoltu-wrapper (only change was to readme text) I receive error MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "Release|AnyCPU" is invalid. It would appear that the configuration and platform are both being supplied to MSBuild as the configuration, concatenated with a |.

   Again looking at the build output, it appears that the platform/configuration isn't supplied via command line, so I am not sure how appveyor is providing these variables so I can't really debug further.

   "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\msbuild.exe" "Zoltu.Wrapper.sln" /logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll"

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jul, 2014 05:14 AM

   

   Will fix that shortly, sorry for that regression.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jul, 2014 05:51 AM

   

   @micah, AppVeyor supplies those values through environment variables. You can override any variable within MSBuild process through environment variables.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jul, 2014 05:54 AM

   

   ...and there is no bug in relation to MSBuild. it's just AnyCPU is the platform that doesn't exist in your solution. Correct one is Any CPU (with space):

   platform:
     - Any CPU
   
   configuration:
     - Release
   

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jul, 2014 12:33 PM

   

   It's back - original behavior of platform and configuration parameters for non-MSBuild scenarios.

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6. 6 Posted by Daniele E. Dome... on 30 Jul, 2014 02:25 PM

   

   I have a CMake project that I am building with a configuration similar to this:

   platform:
     - Win32
     - x64
   
   before_build:
     - cmd: if "%platform%"=="Win32" cmake -G"Visual Studio 12"  ..
     - cmd: if "%platform%"=="x64" cmake -G"Visual Studio 12 Win64" ..
   

   It was working before, but now (last build 22 minutes ago) none of the above cmake command is executed, and therefore the build fails after a few seconds since the solution file is not created.

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jul, 2014 02:28 PM

   

   Will fix that shortly.

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8. Support Staff 8 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jul, 2014 03:33 PM

   

   Should be fine now.

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9. 9 Posted by Daniele E. Dome... on 30 Jul, 2014 04:31 PM

   

   Thanks!

   Unfortunately now it looks like that the before_build step is no longer performed

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10. Support Staff 10 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jul, 2014 04:45 PM

    

    Seems to be working here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/appvyr/appveyor-bot-0904-0540/build...

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11. 11 Posted by Daniele E. Dome... on 30 Jul, 2014 04:57 PM

    

    Failed for both Win32 and x64 builds:

    https://ci.appveyor.com/project/drdanz/ycm/build/job/brw96b623wij26ua
    https://ci.appveyor.com/project/drdanz/ycm/build/job/sc26eonasufh0xmv

    The before_build step seems to be skipped, this was the output of the previous build
    https://ci.appveyor.com/project/drdanz/ycm/build/0.0.0.169/job/wgb7...
    showing in cyan the before_build commands.

    the cmake to go straight to the build step...

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12. 12 Posted by Daniele E. Dome... on 30 Jul, 2014 04:59 PM

    

    Appveyor script: https://github.com/robotology/ycm/blob/master/appveyor.yml

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13. Support Staff 13 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 30 Jul, 2014 05:38 PM

    

    OK, I see. Just deployed a fix.

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14. 14 Posted by Daniele E. Dome... on 30 Jul, 2014 05:57 PM

    

    The build started now.
    Thanks a lot!

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15. 15 Posted by Brian Reavis on 30 Jul, 2014 06:02 PM

    

    Thanks Feodor!

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16. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 01:46 AM.