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Image with Microsoft Build Tools 2015 Preview installed

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dhickey

16 Nov, 2014 10:11 PM

Hi,

now that VS2015 is out, could we get an image / OS that has these build tools installed? http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2015-downloads-vs.aspx

The VS2014CTP image is out of date too, should probably be deprecated.

Cheers

Damian

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 17 Nov, 2014 12:06 AM

   

   Hi Damian,

   We'll do that early next week.

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 18 Nov, 2014 06:04 AM

   

   A new image with VS 2015 installed was deployed. You can select Visual Studio 2015 Preview on Environment tab of project settings or select it in appveyor.yml:

   os: Visual Studio 2015 Preview
   

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3. 3 Posted by dhickey on 19 Nov, 2014 04:02 PM

   

   Great thx.

   I don't think you needed to install the full VS, just the build tools
   should have been enough?

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 19 Nov, 2014 05:42 PM

   

   I believe it depends on what kind of projects you are going to build. For example, WAP targets is a part of "Web Developer Tools" which comes with at least Express edition.

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5. 5 Posted by distantcam on 25 Nov, 2014 10:23 AM

   

   Is there anything else that needs to be done to get this to work?

   My builds keep using msbuild 12 not 14.

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6. 6 Posted by dhickey on 25 Nov, 2014 02:16 PM

   

   I think your build script / tools need to be aware of this tools version
   path. I've just recently added support for it in psake (if targeting
   -frameworkVersion 4.5.1) for example. I haven't tested this on appveyor yet
   though.

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 25 Nov, 2014 07:13 PM

   

   We'll update the image to have MSBuild 14 in PATH by default, but in the meantime you can try adding:

   before_build:
     - set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin;%PATH%
   

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8. dhickey closed this discussion on 03 Jan, 2015 07:50 PM.