Postbuild step not working in VS2017

Asked Jan 30 '18 at 11:36

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I have a VS2017 solution and I'm trying to copy an external DLL into the same folder as the final .exe executable (whether it will be Debug, Release or Publish)

tried with:

xcopy "$(ProjectDir)..\..\myDllFolder\myDll.dll" $(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)

I get:

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error MSB3073 The command "xcopy "C:\Projects\Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer.ServiceHost\....\LMBrick\LMBrick.dll" C:\Projects\Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer.ServiceHost\bin\Release\net461\ /i xcopy "C:\Projects\Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer.ServiceHost\....\LMBrick\LMBrickX.dll" C:\Projects\Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer.ServiceHost\bin\Release\net461\ /i" exited with code 2. Eurotherm.Reviewer.ServiceHost C:\Projects\Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer\Eurotherm.Reviewer.ServiceHost\Eurotherm.Reviewer.ServiceHost.csproj 48

xcopy exited with code 2

The directories are present, the input file is present. why it doesn't work? Code 2 means xcopy doesn't know if the second parameter is a folder or a file, I tried forcing the answer using /i but I get the same error

edited Jan 30 '18 at 11:47

asked Jan 30 '18 at 11:36

Gianluca Ghettini

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Did you not want a "\" after "$(ProjectDir)" before the ".."? – Rowland Shaw Jan 30 '18 at 11:37
Set the log mode to verbose or something so you can actually see what it is doing for the copy command. – Andrew Truckle Jan 30 '18 at 11:46
@RowlandShaw I don't understand you comment. I want a ` after $(ProjectDir)` before the ... ?????? – Gianluca Ghettini Jan 30 '18 at 11:46
You should also wrap yours in quotes just in case you have spaces in the output path. – Andrew Truckle Jan 30 '18 at 12:10
@AndrewTruckle No spaces in the output path – Gianluca Ghettini Jan 30 '18 at 12:11
I know. But it is good practice. – Andrew Truckle Jan 30 '18 at 12:18
See if the answer here helps: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7835304/why-would-a-post-build-step-xcopy-occasionally-exit-with-code-2-in-a-teamcity – Andrew Truckle Jan 30 '18 at 12:20

Postbuild step not working in VS2017

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