Portable Class Library Projects and your Build Server

Yesterday my build server started failing on a particular project and after a quick look at the log I found that it simply wasn't building the solution. Peculiar as I knew it built fine on several development machines, however I dug into the logs and found the following:
  •  error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Portable\v4.0\Microsoft.Portable.CSharp.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
Oh dear, now I know Portable Class Libraries is an add on so I went to MSDN Visual Studio Gallery and got the installer so that I could chuck it on to the build server.

However when attempting to install I got a great message saying I needed VS2010 and SP1 installed, obviously for a build server this wasn't going to happen. After a bit of digging on MSDN I found that the installer actually has a switch that when used just installs the targets for MSBuild.
To install the Portable Class Library Tools on a build machine without installing Visual Studio 2010, save the download file (PortableLibraryTools.exe) on your computer, and run the installation program from a Command Prompt window. Include the /buildmachine switch on the command line.

Simply run the installer with the /BuildMachine switch and everything installs hunky dory.

PortableLibraryTools.exe  /buildmachine


To my great relief the build server started building again and things went back to normal.

Comments

  1. Anonymous2 May 2013 at 19:03

    Thanks. This solved that particular mystery for me today.

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  2. Unknown13 February 2014 at 04:46

    Awesome! ...and still relevant with Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5

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  3. Walter28 February 2014 at 18:01

    Thanks!!.. you saved me lots of minutes!

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  4. Pedro Sousa26 December 2014 at 14:33

    I was going in circles and this tip saved me. Thanks a lot

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  5. Unknown8 June 2015 at 11:23

    Thanx..it worked..

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  6. Unknown1 March 2016 at 12:36

    Years passed and this issue happened to me!

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