I'm trying to make a custom MSBuild script to build all solutions in our repository:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<SourceHome Condition=" '$(SourceHome)'=='' ">..\</SourceHome>
<ToolsHome Condition=" '$(ToolsHome)'=='' ">.\Tools\</ToolsHome>
<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)'=='' ">Release</Configuration>
<DestFolder Condition=" '$(DestFolder)'=='' ">.\$(Configuration)\</DestFolder>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<AllSolutions Include="$(SourceHome)**\*.sln"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Default" DependsOnTargets="Clean;Build;Assemble"/>
<Target Name="Clean">
<Message Text="Cleaning projects..."/>
<MSBuild Projects="@(AllSolutions)"
Targets="Clean"
Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration);"/>
</Target>
<Target Name="RestorePackages">
<Message Text="Restoring packages..."/>
<Exec Command="echo y| "$(ToolsHome)NuGet\NuGet.exe" restore "%(AllSolutions.Identity)""/>
</Target>
<Target Name="Build" DependsOnTargets="RestorePackages">
<Message Text="Building projects..."/>
<MSBuild Projects="@(AllSolutions)"
ContinueOnError="true"
Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration)">
<Output ItemName="OutputFiles" TaskParameter="TargetOutputs"/>
</MSBuild>
</Target>
<Target Name="Assemble">
<Message Text="Assembling output..."/>
<RemoveDir Directories="$(DestFolder)"/>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(OutputFiles)"
DestinationFiles="@(OutputFiles->'$(DestFolder)%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"/>
</Target>
</Project>
The script works well except for the last copy task where %(RecursiveDir) evaluates to an empty string, putting all files in the root destination folder... I can't see what I'm doing wrong here.
I found MSBuild ITaskItem RecursiveDir metadata disappears but it doesn't seem to apply here...
I also found this and this thread but there are no double slashes or braces in any paths. Heres an example of the output during the copy task:
Copying file from "x:\my\repo\SolutionDir\ProjectDir\bin\Release\Example.dll" to ".\Release\Example.dll".