Albacore msbuild task failing in TeamCity

Question

I have written a rake task which builds an asp.net application using Albacore:

msbuild :build do |msb|
    puts "Running local build"
    msb.properties :configuration => :Release, :outdir  => File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/output/"
    msb.targets :Build
    msb.solution = 'App.sln'
    msb.verbosity = 'quiet'
end

Running this locally works perfectly fine however when Teamcity (5.1.2, build 13430) try's to build it, it fails with the following error:

[18:13:04]: C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/albacore/support/attrmethods.rb:7: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
[18:13:04]: C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/albacore/support/attrmethods.rb:7: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
[18:13:05]: Execute build
[18:13:05]: [Execute build] 
RuntimeError: MSBuild Failed. See Build Log For Detail

Stacktrace:
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/albacore/support/failure.rb:12:in `fail_with_message'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/albacore/msbuild.rb:41:in `build_solution'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/albacore/msbuild.rb:26:in `build'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/rake/msbuildtask.rb:2
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/rake/support/createtask.rb:17:in `call'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/rake/support/createtask.rb:17:in `execute'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/albacore-0.1.5/lib/rake/support/albacoretask.rb:16:in `define'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `call'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `standard_execute'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `each'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `standard_execute'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:260:in `execute'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:90:in `target_exception_handling'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:266:in `execute'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:607:in `invoke_prerequisites'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:604:in `each'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:604:in `invoke_prerequisites'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:596:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:607:in `invoke_prerequisites'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:604:in `each'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:604:in `invoke_prerequisites'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:596:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:in `standard_invoke_with_call_chain'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:235:in `invoke'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:90:in `target_exception_handling'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:234:in `invoke'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in `invoke_task'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `each'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:311:in `standard_exception_handling'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:in `top_level'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in `run'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:311:in `standard_exception_handling'
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in `run'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rake_ext.rb:179:in `run'
C:/TeamCity/buildAgent/plugins/rake-runner/lib/rb/runner/rakerunner.rb:40

When I try running the rake script from the build agent's folder the build script completes successfully.

The only thought I have is that msbuild outputs this warning:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets : warning MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Answer 1

you can add this to msbuild to get the proper msbuild output:

/l:JetBrains.BuildServer.MSBuildLoggers.MSBuildLogger,D:/teamcity/buildagent/plugins/dotnetplugin/bin/JetBrains.BuildServer.MSBuildLoggers.dll

Edit: In albacore-speak:

msb.parameters "/l:JetBrains.BuildServer.MSBuildLoggers.MSBuildLogger,D:/teamcity/buildagent/plugins/dotnetplugin/bin/JetBrains.BuildServer.MSBuildLoggers.dll"

(set it to your TC path obviously)

Edit 2: The MSBuild error sounds like you're referencing different version of things. have you got strongly named references? Did you let resharper add your references? sometimes it mixes them up, adding references to other project's bin folders instead of your lib.

Answer 2

Turns out, I needed to state the full path to the solution

File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/App.sln'