This follows on from this question.
I have a windows service application where I want to serve out a single html page to display simple runtime information for the service. I found the utility inliner which allows me to combine my web files into a single html file, which is easy to serve up via self hosted web api running in the windows service.
I would like to auto run the script to build this single html file, so I put the command line into a .bat/.cmd file and then call this from Visual Studio 2015 post build event. The source html file has a couple of references to scripts and css, eg
<head>
<link href="lib\css\bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="lib\js\jquery-2.2.1.js"></script>
<script src="_default.js"></script>
</head>
The contents of the .cmd (or .bat) file are as follows
echo %1
cd %1
dir .
where inliner
inliner -vs _default.html > default.html
In the Visual Studio post build, I have have
call "$(ProjectDir)\WebAdminPanel\build.bat" "$(ProjectDir)\WebAdminPanel"
The echo and dir. are just debug output so I could see the directory was correctly changed (I thought this may be the issue)
The batch file (that now works when I run it manually), does run, but I still get an empty output file.
The -v flag should make the utility run verbose, but I do not see any output from in the Visual Studio output window; perhaps this would help to see what is going wrong. I am suspected perhaps it is not finding the includes, but not sure.
Is there anyone familiar with this utility and perhaps know why it fails when I run it as a Visual Studio post build task?
Thanks in advance for any help.
(EDIT)
In the visual studio output window I see
1> Directory of H:\dev\myapp\WebAdminPage
1>
1> 11/03/2016 03:10 PM <DIR> .
1> 11/03/2016 03:10 PM <DIR> ..
1> 11/03/2016 03:10 PM 79 build.bat
1> 11/03/2016 03:09 PM 182 default.html
1> 07/03/2016 12:41 PM <DIR> lib
1> 10/03/2016 11:12 PM 2,025 _default.html
1> 10/03/2016 11:06 PM 2,412 _default.js
1> 4 File(s) 4,698 bytes
1> 3 Dir(s) 1,376,883,204,096 bytes free
1> C:\Users\peterc\AppData\Roaming\npm\inliner
1> C:\Users\peterc\AppData\Roaming\npm\inliner.cmd
