[Question] What are the minimal software requirements to build a .Net project with MSBuild

[f0rt]

Hi team,

I have a .NET solution that I built on a build system with MSBuild 14, VS 2015 installed and Windows 10. I'm now trying to find the minimal setup for building that project. I have Windows Server 2016 OS. I prefer all the build tools to be standalone if possible. I'm currently able to build the project with MSBuild and VS2015/VS2017 installed but I'm unable to build without VS installed. Is it possible? Is there a standalone edition of the latest MSBuild?

Thank you in advance,
Nedko

[Veigres]

I think that the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 have a standalone version of MSBuild for Windows. You can download it here (at the bottom of the page, under "Other Tools and Frameworks")

[f0rt]

Thanks. Is there a copy deploy-able distribution?

[f0rt]

I was able to build successfully on a clean OS by just copying:

1. MSBuild - <ProgramFiles(x86)>\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild
2. Reference Assemblies - <ProgramFiles(x86)>\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5

[AndyGerlicher]

Team Triage:
The current supported way to distribute MSBuild is via the Build Tools installer (which @Veigres linked), through Visual Studio, or through dotnet CLI. We don't have an xcopy-able deployment supported at this time.

Duplicate of #1602

[f0rt]

Thanks.