Re: Solution format of file is not supported.

BUILD FILE 1

<project name="bf1" default="Start">
	<target name="Start">
		{DO SOMETHING HERE}

		<call target="BF2" />
	</target>

	<target name="BF2">
		<nant buildfile="{PATH TO BF2 DUILD FILE}\BF2.build" inheritall="false">
          			<properties>
           				 <property name="{PROPERTY NAME}" value="{PROPERTY VALUE}" />
          			</properties>
        		</nant>
	</target>
</project>

BUILD FILE 2

<project name="bf2" default="Start">
	<target name="Start">
		{DO SOMETHING HERE}

		<call target="BF3" />
	</target>

	<target name="BF3">
		<nant buildfile="{PATH TO BF3 DUILD FILE}\BF3.build" inheritall="false">
          			<properties>
           				 <property name="{PROPERTY NAME}" value="{PROPERTY VALUE}" />
          			</properties>
        		</nant>
	</target>
</project>

You would repeat something like this for each one.

This link is helpful: http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/nant.html


Brian Wilson
Programmer Analyst, Associate
Department of Human Resources
Email: [email protected]



-----Original Message-----
From: Jed Padilla [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:27 PM
To: Wilson, Brian
Subject: RE: [NAnt-users] Solution format of file is not supported.

Do you have an example of the daisy chain, and how I could call one from the other?

-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson, Brian [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:21 PM
To: 'Jed Padilla'
Subject: RE: [NAnt-users] Solution format of file is not supported.

Yes you can, or you can daisy chain them.  So the master calls build file, which calls build file 2 and so on.


Brian Wilson
Programmer Analyst, Associate
Department of Human Resources
Email: [email protected]



-----Original Message-----
From: Jed Padilla [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 2:20 PM
To: Wilson, Brian; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NAnt-users] Solution format of file is not supported.

The solution is indeed newer, it is VS2010.  I will take a look at the link you gave below and see if that lets me do what I want.

As a follow up question assuming I get this to work.  Once I have all 10 .build files, can I make 1 .build file in the parent directory and invoke that to build all 10 other .builds in order?

-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson, Brian [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:16 PM
To: 'Jed Padilla'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NAnt-users] Solution format of file is not supported.

Are any of the projects dependent on another project?  Do you have this specified in the solution file?  I have never used this tag, as my projects usually involve web sites and desktop applications.  You might want to use something along these lines.

<solution configuration="release">
    <projects>
        <include name="A\A.csproj" />
        <include name="B\b.vbproj" />
        <include name="C\c.csproj" />
    </projects>
    <referenceprojects>
        <include name="X\x.csproj" />
    </referenceprojects>
</solution>

If the solution is newer than VS2003, then you will need to use the MSBuild task from NAnt contrib.  (Which is the one I usually use)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327722/nant-and-vs2008-net-3-5-solution
-format-of-file-solution-sln-is-not-supporte


Brian Wilson
Programmer Analyst, Associate
Department of Human Resources
Email: [email protected]


From: Jed Padilla [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NAnt-users] Solution format of file is not supported.

I recently had a friend recommend NAnt to me.  The project I am working on has 10 different solutions to it, and each solution usually has multiple projects within that will output dll files for the final solution to use.
I have a very simple .build file right now:

<project name="Solution Build Example" default="rebuild">
    <property name="configuration" value="release"/>
   
    <target name="clean" description="Delete all previously compiled binaries.">
        <delete>
            <fileset>
                <include name="**/bin/**" />
                <include name="**/obj/**" />
            </fileset>
        </delete>
    </target>
   
    <target name="build" description="Build all targets.">
       <call target="build.FACCBase"/>
    </target>
   
    <target name="rebuild" depends="clean, build" />

    <target name="build.FACCBase">
        <solution configuration="${configuration}"
solutionfile="FACCBase.sln">
        </solution>
    </target>
   
</project>

The clean part is working fine, however when I get to the build portion I get errors:

Solution format of file 'C:\TESTTFS\FACCBase\FACCBase.sln' is not supported.

I am sure that you all will need more information to help me, so if you tell me what I am missing to get this working I will provide as much as I can.  The solution in question has 8 projects and an active config of
Debug|Any CPU

Thanks.
Jedadiah Padilla
Programmer/Analyst ||
Florida Association of Court Clerks


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