NAnt Fix for .NET 3.5 Compiling Without Visual Studio

[Ben Floyd]

I recently had the problem that I created a build server that did not have Visual Studio installed and I needed to compile .NET 3.5 code. I figured out that NAnt 0.86 beta 1 was looking for registry keys in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\WinSDKNetFxTools hive. To fix this I installed the Windows Server 2008 and .NET 3.5 SDK, which creates the registry keys at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\WinSDKNetFxTools.

To get NAnt to recognize the installed SDK I added the following registry keys:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\WinSDKNetFxTools]
"InstallationFolder"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v6.1\\"
"ProductVersion"="6.1"

It basically points the v6.0 SDK to the v6.1 one that is installed. From there, NAnt can find the tools necessary to compile .NET 3.5 code without having Visual Studio installed. I'm not sure there is anything that the NAnt dev team could do about this because they don't actively modify the environment to detect installed SDKs.

If anyone has a suggestion on how to get this check into the trunk for NAnt please let the dev team know! I've written a blog post about this as well at http://dataplex.org/blog/2009/01/fixing-nant-086-beta-1-for-net-35-continuous-integration/

Thanks,
Ben Floyd

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[gertdriesen]

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Hi Ben,

 

This issue is already fixed in CVS, and will be part of the next drop.

 

Gert

 

From: Ben Floyd [mailto:dataplex@...]
Sent: donderdag 29 januari 2009 23:46
To: nant-users@...
Subject: [NAnt-users] NAnt Fix for .NET 3.5 Compiling Without Visual Studio

 

I recently had the problem that I created a build server that did not have Visual Studio installed and I needed to compile .NET 3.5 code. I figured out that NAnt 0.86 beta 1 was looking for registry keys in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\WinSDKNetFxTools hive. To fix this I installed the Windows Server 2008 and .NET 3.5 SDK, which creates the registry keys at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\WinSDKNetFxTools.

To get NAnt to recognize the installed SDK I added the following registry keys:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\WinSDKNetFxTools]
"InstallationFolder"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v6.1\\"
"ProductVersion"="6.1"

It basically points the v6.0 SDK to the v6.1 one that is installed. From there, NAnt can find the tools necessary to compile .NET 3.5 code without having Visual Studio installed. I'm not sure there is anything that the NAnt dev team could do about this because they don't actively modify the environment to detect installed SDKs.

If anyone has a suggestion on how to get this check into the trunk for NAnt please let the dev team know! I've written a blog post about this as well at http://dataplex.org/blog/2009/01/fixing-nant-086-beta-1-for-net-35-continuous-integration/

Thanks,
Ben Floyd

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