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I'm curious if it's possible to use the nantcontrib task in combination with Mono's xbuild.exe instead of it's intended msbuild.exe.

My initial experiments aren't looking too promising; the task looks for msbuild.exe, so I symlink'd xbuild.exe to msbuild.exe but the task is failing with a 

External Program Failed: /usr/lib/mono/2.0/msbuild.exe (return code was 1):

Is it possible to use xbuild as a direct substitute for msbuild? If not, any input on getting a NAnt task to build a Visual Studio Solution (.sln) under mono would be appreciated!

STW
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  • It seems to me that this question is a bit unspecific. You might have more luck with this by directly asking in the Nant support forums. – O. R. Mapper Jul 02 '12 at 18:31
  • I'll try, but it's hard to say if whether it's a NAnt/NAntContrib/Mono question--so I figured I'd ask the collective developer brain of the internet – STW Jul 02 '12 at 18:33

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Look at this similar question. Furthermore, consider using NAnt's simple <exec> element instead of NAntContrib's <msbuild> wrapper.

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  • Thanks Babak; I've settled that the answer to my question is "no, the task isn't compatible with xbuild". Thanks for the tip about the task--it's working very well :D – STW Jul 09 '12 at 20:49