Ict.Tools.NAntTasks.dll not found

charlvj

Hey Timo et al,
I got the code and wanted to try my luck at building Petra, but I get the following error when running nant:

/home/charlvj/Projects/openpetra/OpenPetra.build(51,10):
Could not find file '/home/charlvj/Projects/openpetra/csharp/ICT/PetraTools/_bin/Debug/Ict.Tools.NAntTasks.dll' to copy.

(The full nant output is below...)
The _bin directory didn't exist at all. I tried to follow what is going on in the build file and trace through it manually. I am getting stuck on mdtool build: I can't figure out where it is saving the built files, unless I am misunderstanding the whole thing completely. (I haven't done much at all with .Net.)

I use Ubuntu 10.4. I followed the instructions

charlvj@[deleted]-laptop:~/Projects/openpetra$ nant clean
NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.2478.0; release; 10/14/2006)
Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Gerry Shaw
http://nant.sourceforge.net

Buildfile: file:///home/charlvj/Projects/openpetra/OpenPetra.build
Target framework: Mono 2.0 Profile
Target(s) specified: clean 

   [script] Scanning assembly "796ce1bd" for extensions.
   [script] Scanning assembly "69bc815" for extensions.
     [copy] Copying 1 file to '/home/charlvj/Projects/openpetra/csharp/ThirdParty/SQLite/System.Data.SQLite.dll'.
     [copy] Copying 1 file to '/home/charlvj/Projects/openpetra/csharp/ThirdParty/MySQL/MySql.Data.dll'.

compileCommon:


compileTemplate:

 [echo] mono-2.0
 [echo] True
 [echo] False
 [exec] MonoDevelop Build Tool
 [exec] Loading solution: ./csharp/ICT/Common.sln
 [exec]    Loading solution: ./csharp/ICT/Common.sln
 [exec]       Loading projects ..
 [exec] Building: Common (Debug|x86)
 [exec]    Building Solution Common

compilePetraTools:


compileTemplate:

 [echo] mono-2.0
 [echo] True
 [echo] False
 [exec] MonoDevelop Build Tool
 [exec] Loading solution: ./csharp/ICT/PetraTools.sln
 [exec]    Loading solution: ./csharp/ICT/PetraTools.sln
 [exec]       Loading projects ..
 [exec] Building: PetraTools (Debug|x86)
 [exec]    Building Solution PetraTools

BUILD FAILED

/home/charlvj/Projects/openpetra/OpenPetra.build(51,10):
Could not find file '/home/charlvj/Projects/openpetra/csharp/ICT/PetraTools/_bin/Debug/Ict.Tools.NAntTasks.dll' to copy.

Total time: 2.7 seconds.

pokorra

Hello Charl,

good to hear from you!

We have a similar discussion here: sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/openp ... p?f=8&t=34 (I just moved it to this sub-forum because I realised it was in the wrong place)

You should try to install an uptodate version of NAnt, the latest nightly build. Things have changed since 2006, and the latest version is from August 2010 (sourceforge.net/projects/nant/fi ... 91-alpha2/).

Please also have a look at sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/o ... buntu#NAnt, I know see that I had huge problems with NAnt 0.85 on Ubuntu, which were solved by the newer version.
Oh, I read you did follow the instructions... perhaps you forgot to change the /usr/bin/nant and it is still using the old version of NAnt?

As an explanation of the OpenPetra.build file:
on each run, first in line 32 (<if test="${not file::exists(IctNAntTasks.file)}">) it is checked whether that file Ict.Tools.NAntTasks.dll exists, if not, compileCommon and compilePetraTools are executed, which should create the _bin directories and the dlls.

Another point would be to change your OpenPetra.build.config and use xbuild rather than mbuild, but that would change all your csproj files and makes it a bit more difficult for committing. But at this current stage you probably would not need committing, so it could be worth a try.

Please also have a go at the binary file available in the OpenPetra downloads and see if that installs fine, and whether the client starts etc.

Thanks,
Timo

charlvj

Hello Charl,

good to hear from you!

Yes indeed! :-)

I don't think this problem is due to an old nant version. I do not doubt that there might be another problem related to it, but this one seems to be something else. As I said, I tried to recreate the build process manually, and mdtool didn't quite behave how I was expecting it to. I tried to build from MonoDevelop, and it would just tell me that the build is done - within a second after starting the build.

Either way, I tried your suggestion of using xbuild instead, and that worked much better. I get compiler errors now: Something like:
SQLiteConsole.Program.cs - DB doesn't exist in Ict.Common namespace
GenerateSampleData.Prograam.cs - IO doesn't exist in Ict.Common namespace

I'll try figure out what is going on when I have time, unless these rings a bell for you...

pokorra

The other poster seems to have problems with Ict.Common.*.dlls too, but I cannot reproduce it.
I have a continuous integration server with hudson running on Debian (ci.openpetra.org), and that builds OpenPetra fine all the time.

Try running nant compileCommon, and see if the Ict.Common.IO.dll and Ict.Common.DB.dll exist in directory csharp/ICT/Common/_bin/Debug.
Then the other projects should pick them up from there.