*.dll.licenses file in obj directory not created with msbuild in TeamCity

c# asp.net-mvc msbuild teamcity visual-studio-2015
gwin003 picture gwin003 · Sep 3, 2015 · Viewed 14.4k times · Source

I am working on upgrading our TeamCity projects from VS2012 to VS2015 and I am running into an issue compiling our MVC application.

Old MSBuild (v4.0.30319.34209) generates a file in the obj directory called MyApplication.Web.Mvc.dll.licenses which apparently is required for building, but we have no idea what the file is actually used for.

New MSBuild (v14.0.23107.0) does not create this MyApplication.Web.Mvc.dll.licenses file, so the build fails with the following error:

CSC error CS1566: Error reading resource 'MyApplication.Web.Mvc.dll.licenses' 
-- 'Could not find file 'C:\BuildAgent\work\58ddf5f1234d8c8a\application\MyApplication\MyApplication.Web.Mvc\obj\Release\MyApplication.Web.Mvc.dll.licenses'.'

I have been running the builds manually via cmd on the machine, and the dll.licenses file gets created whenever running the build using the old msbuild, just not the new one.

The file gets created on the development machines running VS2015, but not on the Teamcity build server. So it seems to me that something else is out of date?

Answer

Njål Nordmark picture Njål Nordmark · Sep 10, 2015

After a bit more googling, I stumbled upon this thread on MSDN.

The solution suggested here is to install the Windows 10 SDK. We did this on our TeamCity build server running Windows Server 2012 R2 using the default installation options, and after a reboot, our build was working again.

Hope this helps :)

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