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mbreakey

Jul 05, 2017 @ 06:42 PM

Hi,

I started receiving the below error on my builds and I can't figure out what's causing it:

"Specify which project or solution file to use because the folder contains more than one project or solution file"

I looked for duplicate .cproj and .sln files but didn't find any extra in our repo, even when I remoted into the machine.

1. 1 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on Jul 05, 2017 @ 06:56 PM

   

   Can you please check that on actual VM during build with dir /s *sln && dir /s *csproj command called before build and send it to us? Please feel free to make conversation Private.

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2. 2 Posted by mbreakey on Jul 05, 2017 @ 08:39 PM

   

   With -Recurse on as well?

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3. 3 Posted by mbreakey on Jul 05, 2017 @ 08:40 PM

   

   Also - on this machine I'm not building - I'm downloading the built package from a previous AppVeyor project artifact.

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4. 4 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on Jul 05, 2017 @ 08:43 PM

   

   Yes, that's why I mentioned -s, it does recurse in cmd, but feel free to use PowerShell :)

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5. 5 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on Jul 05, 2017 @ 08:46 PM

   

   Oh, this -- on this machine I'm not building -- changes the issue. How you tell AppVeyor not to build? Do you have build: off or build_script:?

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6. 6 Posted by mbreakey on Jul 05, 2017 @ 08:48 PM

   

   Ah, that may have been what caused the problem. Initially I just had it as an empty section but then I removed it completely. Should I change it to "build: off"?

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7. 7 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on Jul 05, 2017 @ 08:54 PM

   

   Anything will work. Both options will effectively disable msbuild option so AppVeyor will not search/parse solution and/or project files. If you use build_script:, you simple have one more place to add your custom script. But is you already have your custom logic in the different place, build: off looks cleaner.

   Also you might find useful this blog post: https://www.appveyor.com/blog/2015/11/04/deployment-projects/

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8. 8 Posted by mbreakey on Jul 05, 2017 @ 09:42 PM

   

   Great, thank you so much Ilya! This fixed the problem

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9. mbreakey closed this discussion on Jul 05, 2017 @ 09:42 PM.