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Arseny Kapoulkine

20 Oct, 2015 05:17 AM

Can we get CoApp PowerShell Tools installed on the images that run Appveyor builds? (http://downloads.coapp.org/files/CoApp.Tools.Powershell.msi, http://coapp.org/tutorials/building-a-package.html)

CoApp is pretty much required for building native NuGet packages.

In theory it should be possible to install the MSI during the VM build, however for some reason I can't get this to work - I can install it fine but I can't run the PowerShell command that's supposed to be installed with this MSI (https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zeux/pugixml/build/nuget-174). I can run this fine on an actual Windows machine, so I suspect that it has to do with first-time installation issue mentioned on http://coapp.org/tutorials/building-a-package.html.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 21 Oct, 2015 05:06 PM

   

   Hi Arseny,

   Sorry for the late reply.

   I believe you should import some PowerShell module with that command after MSI is installed.

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2. 2 Posted by Arseny Kapoulki... on 24 Oct, 2015 08:53 PM

   

   Ok, I finally got it working.

   Import-Module helped, in addition to setting PSModulePath in the current PS session: https://github.com/zeux/pugixml/blob/master/appveyor.yml#L5-L8

   I believe AppVeyor documentation on installing from .msi is incorrect. Note that I use Start-Process -Wait to launch msiexec - if I don't do it the installation seems to proceed in parallel with subsequent PS commands, which of course can't work in my case.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 25 Oct, 2015 12:40 AM

   

   Yeah, should fix that part.

   Another way of installing MSIs:

   $msiPath = "$($env:USERPROFILE)\CoApp.Tools.Powershell.msi"
   (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://downloads.coapp.org/files/CoApp.Tools.Powershell.msi', $msiPath)
   cmd /c start /wait msiexec /i "$msiPath" /quiet
   

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4. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:01 AM.