Building C# (Mono) Solution from GitHub with TeamCity on CentOS - mono

I am trying to get TeamCity to do automated builds for me on CentOS, however if I create a runner type of 'MSBuild' I get the following error
Failed to start MSBuild.exe. Failed to find msbuild.exe at path: /usr/lib/mono/4.0/xbuild.exe
I tried a runner type of 'Visual Studio (sln)' setting Visual Studio to be 2012 and got the following error
No enabled compatible agents for this build configuration.
When I look at my Agent Requirements, I see:
Unmet requirements: DotNetFramework4.5_x86 exists
I honestly have no idea what could be wrong. Mono is up and running on this machine, as it is hosting a website built with Mono. Could somebody with a bit more experience let me know what I have done wrong please?
[EDIT]
I have just tried creating a symbolic link of where xbuild actually lives to where TeamCity wants it.
ln -s /usr/bin/xbuild /usr/lib/mono/4.0/xbuild.exe
I now am getting the following error in the Build log, so I am thinking it doesn't like symbolic links.
[MSBuild output] Cannot open assembly '/usr/lib/mono/4.0/xbuild.exe': File does not contain a valid CIL image.

I was able to get around this by adding an environment variable to the buildAgent.properties file on the build agent. Once you find that file add something like this in the Environment Variables section:
env.MSBuild=/usr/local/lib/mono/xbuild/12.0/bin/
I was doing this with ubuntu so that path might not be the same as what you were looking for.

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Cannot configure QtCreator using CMake on Ubuntu 18.04

I am trying to setup a project based on CMake with QtCreator.
In Projects I defined the Build Steps I need.
In the Build setting I get constantly the error message:
Failed to activate protocol version: "CMAKE_GENERATOR" is set but incompatible with configured generator value
I tried to browse on the Internet for this problem but I could not get rid of this error.
If now I however try to build my project specifying a target, my compile steps are not executed, instead, I get the following message:
Running "/usr/local/bin/cmake -E server --pipe=/tmp/cmake-W2VOXm/socket --experimental" in xxxx/.Build/release.
CMake Project parsing failed.
Parsing of CMake project failed: Connection to CMake server lost.
Restarting QtCreator does not help, each time the project is opened the message happens again.
Make sure the build directory it's in the same directory than your projects is, like this:
I got a similar error and have fixed it.
Try to reinstall cmake in Ubuntu by follwing https://cgold.readthedocs.io/en/latest/first-step/installation.html#ubuntu.
Configurate Tools - Options - build & run regarding "cmake" and "kits". Make sure that one of the configurations (auto-detected or maunal) is corrected.
restart qt creator, open project and "run cmake" again.
I have seen and resolved this issue previously by just deleting the build folder, reloading qtcreator and rerunning cmake.

Visual Studio Extension build failing with Error VSSDK1077: Unable to locate the extensions directory. "Value cannot be null

I have configured a TFS(2017) build pipeline to compile a VS extension with debug mode for a specific requirement which require .pdb files.
The build solution task fails for "debug" configuration with below error, however same pipeline works for the release configuration.
I have tried the approach mentioned in the following discussion as well, howewer it doesn't resolve my issue.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/fd220999-5761-475a-bf86-98dff6b35218/unable-to-compile-vsix-project-that-is-a-part-of-my-solution-using-amd64-msbuild-from-vs2015?forum=msbuild
Appreciate if someone can help me to resolve this issue.
Following is the build configuration used for the Build Solution task:
Following build variables are used to configure build parameters.
Build Error message:
packages\Microsoft.VSSDK.BuildTools.15.1.192\tools\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets
(633, 5)
packages\Microsoft.VSSDK.BuildTools.15.1.192\tools\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(633,5):
Error VSSDK1077: Unable to locate the extensions directory. "Value
cannot be null. Parameter name: path1". Process 'msbuild.exe' exited
with code '1'.
Update your Microsoft.VSSDK.BuildTools NuGet package to latest version 15.9.3032, just in case it is a problem already solved.
Release configurations can also generate PDB files (Project properties, Build tab, Advanced...button, Output > Debugging information). So, if the Release configuration works for you, you can keep using it while also generating a pdb file with full debug information.
The error is happening when, once compiled correctly, the generated VSIX output file is going to be deployed to the folder for extensions of the experimental VS instance, which is a required step to debug the VSIX file. A possible explanation of the different behavior for Debug/Release configurations is that maybe your .csproj specifies <DeployExtension>False</DeployExtension> for the Release configuration. By default, if not set, that property is set to true in the Microsoft.VsSDK.targets file:
<DeployExtension Condition="'$(DeployExtension)' == ''">true</DeployExtension>
Since likely you don't need to deploy the VSIX to the VS experimental instance when building on a build server (because you are not going to debug it), you can set that property to False to skip the deployment. This can be done with a 3rd build configuration (ex: "DebugBuildServer"), for which you specify DeployExtension to False in the .csproj file, or sticking to two build configurations but passing the /p:DeployExtension=false in the MSBuild arguments of the Visual Studio Build task of your build pipeline.

Build using TeamCity: Failed to start MSBuild; please specify a nuspec or project file to use

I'm trying to build a website in Teamcity, but the first build step "starting MSBuild" is failing.It seems that the command is trying to install nuget, but it is complaining that there is no nuspec or project file specified.
I have a "nuget.targets" file and the code compiles fine outside of teamcity , so I think it must be a setting I am missing, and not a file I actually need to add but maybe I do need to add a nuspec or project file? Assuming I do, how would I go about doing that?
[Exec] C:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\61cf1fbc18b86c6f\.nuget\NuGet.targets
(109, 9): Please specify a nuspec or project file to use.
I am completely new to Teamcity (~3hrs); how do I resolve this problem?
If a build fails or behaves differntly in TeamCity than locally, then it is recommended to run the build in the working folder on agent machine under the same user that the agent is running. Find more details here.

MSBuild fails due to error APPX0002: Task 'GenerateAppxPackageRecipe' failed. Value cannot be null

I'm attempting to do a command line package deploy for our Windows Store Application.
My command line instructions are:
msbuild /m /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=x86 /target:Build
I'm using VS2013 Professional with Windows 8.1
I get the following error:
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\AppxPackage\Microsoft.AppXPackage.Targets(1224,9):
error APPX0002: Task 'GenerateAppxPackageRecipe' failed. Value cannot
be null.\r [C:\Path\Project.csproj]
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\AppxPackage\Microsoft.AppXPackage.Targets(1224,9):
error APPX0002: Parameter name: source\r [C:\Path\Project.csproj]
How should I resolve this?
This error was resolved by using the correct version of msbuild.exe
On a clean build server with VS2013 installed, there are (at least) two copies of msbuild.exe installed. In our case the install locations were:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\Bin\msbuild.exe
and
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe
The one in the .Net Framework folder was the one that gave us the errors. Using the version installed in the Program Files folder resolved the issue.
It's impossible to help you without having the code which can reproduce the error. I suspect some property does not resolve correctly when building outside VS(eg VisualStudioVersion) and needs to be passed from command line. VS also uses msbuild to build your projects, so comparing build logs from VS and CMD should help you track down the problem.
I suggest, that you set visual studio's build output verbosity to diagnostic, clean solution, than build and capture the build log.
Then clean solution and build from command line with verbosity set to diagnostic and /fl switch(log to file, because diagnostic build log is way too long to analyse in console window).
Compare command-line output to VS output. Look for the differences. With diagnostic level of verbosity, chances are, you'll find out what's missing (I had similar issues with database projects failing to build from cmd due to VisualStudioVersion variable not being resolved correctly, so I passed it from command line).
NB: diagnostic log is very verbose which makes analysis hard: I'd start from detailed verbosity level.
I have deleted all files/folders from "project"/bin folder, cleaned the solution and rebuild with success !
For those facing the issue on hybrid app (corodova in my case), delete the build folder manually and re-build from VS.
Standard clean solution didn't do the job.

How to build yaml-cpp with CMake on Windows?

I can be a real dummy when it comes to following instructions sometimes, pardon me. I'm in a bit of a hurry to get YAML files working with my program. I have downloaded the YAML files from the official site, I have downloaded an installed the latest CMake. What do i do now? I don't understand DLL creation nor the issues that there seem to be.
When I open CMake I put in the path to the extracted yaml-cpp-0.2.7 folder with the yaml-cpp.pc.cmake file and I set up the build path. Is there anything else I should do here? I get this error:
CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to ""Visual Studio 9 2008"". CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set. You probably need to select a different build tool.
CMake Error: Could not find cmake module file:C:/path/yaml-cpp-0.2.7/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeCCompiler.cmake
CMake Error: Could not find cmake module file:C:/path/yaml-cpp-0.2.7/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeCXXCompiler.cmake
Also once i'm done with this what should I do next to be able to launch the example code from the site? Which configuration should I use to be able to launch the file on VS Express 2010? I'm stuck, I can't find answers anywhere.
I have made a mistake here, i tried to get the CMake file going on a computer which didn't have the IDE installed, i installed VC++ 2010 and it works now.
I loaded the yaml-cpp solution into VC++ 2010, bulit it, linked everything and it works fine now.