Multiple Issues opening and building the solution in VS2017 #294
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This project uses submodules, run: This project also uses git lfs, which didn't come with my install by default and may require you re-checkout LFS managed files. |
The default errors that e.g. Visual Studio gives when failing to do either of these are unhelpful at best, downright confusing at worst. As I'm apparently not alone in overlooking these steps, they seem worth documenting. Ref: PistonDevelopers#294 "Multiple Issues opening and building the solution in VS2017"
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Thanks Monkey. That takes care of most of the issues, but I'm still unable to load the projects that depend on VsSDK.targets. It seems like that would be because I'm missing the VS SDK, but the link in the Prerequisites section of the Readme section 404s for me, and this page indicates that the "Visual Studio extension development" workflow should install the SDK. In fact, I can find the SDK under the individual components tab of the installer, and it indicates as installed. |
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A bit more digging led me to this issue. Removing the line
lets me load the projects. I still get compilation errors, but it's not immediately apparent to me whether these errors are related to my removal of the VsSDK.targets line. |
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Based on this thread: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/b5f06cdb-01e0-4102-b23f-99557b7b010c/vs-2017-rc-deploy-vsix-extension-files-error?forum=vsx I noticed that the nuget references for
I don't currently have VS2017 installed so I'm unable to test this myself. Experimenting with removing that line in my VS2015 setup causes the project and item templates to fail to generate for me, which will cause build errors when trying to create the .vsix for installation in Debug builds: 12>C:\r\packages\Microsoft.VSSDK.BuildTools.14.3.25420\tools\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(520,5): error VSSDK1025: Could not add the file "C:\r\src\VisualRust....\bin\VisualRust.Templates\Release\ProjectTemplates\Rust\127\ApplicationProject.zip" to the zip package "C:\r\build..\bin\VisualRust.2015\Release\VisualRust.vsix". Could not find file 'C:\r\bin\VisualRust.Templates\Release\ProjectTemplates\Rust\127\ApplicationProject.zip'. These .zip s aren't properly packaged into the release builds in the current master branch anyways, so that might not be a show stopper (I have a pull request open to fix this and other issues: #286 ) I also get errors related to VS2017 as I don't have that installed, but only for "*.2017.*proj" projects. I've also been using the |
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Appreciate the help Monkey. I started trying to compile from source in the first place to get the #286 changes, since the latest packaged version still seems unable to create projects. I'm still getting two errors after updating the nuget packages, but I feel like we are making progress. I get the same errors both on the current PistonDevelopers master and with the #286. I had to delete the offending line I mentioned in order to load the projects and update the nuget projects. If I add the line back after the update, the projects load, but I get some additional errors of which this looks like the most relevant: |
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Upgrading to For your first error, a8a1ae0 should fix the problem (part of that PR) - also, the release build should work OK. For your second error, I'm currently using the absolutely hideous hack, I'm certain this is the wrong thing to do, but I haven't gotten around to figuring out what the right thing to do is. |
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Hmm. Removing those registry keys doesn't seem to break anything for me currently - those errors might be from trying to build for versions of visual studio that aren't installed, or from having files that were checked out before git lfs was installed (StrongNamer.dll is one of the files stored via If you don't want to re-clone the entire repository, IIRC the following steps will fix things (assuming |
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The solution config/platform situation is worse than I remembered. Specifically, I'm using |
I have a fresh install of Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 with the ".NET desktop development" and "Visual Studio extension development" workloads installed, along with "WiX Toolset v3.11" and the associated VS 2017 extension.
After cloning the repository, upon opening the solution "MICore" and "MIDebugEngine" projects fail to load because their project files do not exist. The "VisualRust.2015", "VisualRust.2017", and "VisualRust.Templates" projects all fail to load with the message
The imported project "$(VSToolsPath)\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets" was not found. Also, tried to find "$(VSToolsPath)\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets" in the fallback search path(s) for $(VSToolsPath) - "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0" . These search paths are defined in "C:\Users\jason\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_977bb56b\devenv.exe.config". Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk in one of the search paths. S:\Code\VisualRust\src\VisualRust.Templates\VisualRust.Templates.csprojTrying to build the Release target also results in a number of seamingly unrelated errors. The following is the build output:
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