Is it possible to do this natively without addons or 3rd party tools?
I know there is the gacutil, but there is not an exe to run, otherwise i could've called it from the Exec task.
Has anyone done something similiar?
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Gacutil.exe is the standard supported tool for doing "dev box" installations of .NET assemblies. I would recommend simply using the Exec task as you mentioned to invoke it if you want to GAC your assemblies as part of a build task.
If you really want to do this without creating a new process, then you'd have to write a custom MSbuild task to implement the COM interop calls required to do what gacutil.exe does. Junfeng Zhang's blog post would be a good starting point if you want to go this route.
bobbymcr
2009-09-07 04:58:28
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The gacuti.exe can be in more than one place. It's not on the system %path% variable, so you'll have to use the full path (it will not run otherwise).
I use C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil.exe" -i MyAssembly.dll
It was reported to be found on other locations as well:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\gacutil.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\gacutil.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\gacutil.exe
An easy way to find it is using the windows search, or the command line: dir gacutil.exe /s /a.
Unfortunately, I have seed some servers where gacutil wasn't found, and I had to install the dlls manually.
Kobi
2009-09-07 05:04:05
Officially, gacutil is an SDK tool, so the most "correct" location would be the path found in the registry key "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows" under the value "CurrentInstallFolder".
bobbymcr
2009-09-07 05:11:58
That's good do know. Thanks.
Kobi
2009-09-07 05:40:01
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Hi!
You should use the "GacUtil" task, from MSBuild Community Tasks (free). I think this is cleaner than calling the executable.
Regards,
Olivier.
Olivier
2009-09-08 13:08:58