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[DelphiGuy]

with switch corrected to "-x86", install went just fine, except for same warning i got from 64-bit install.

[nerdzero]

Hmm, that's weird. In your output it seemed to be trying to use MSBuild from .NET 2.0, and the Platform seemed to be the path to the targets file.

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets(490,9)
: error : The OutputPath property is not set for this project. Please check to
make sure that you have specified a valid Configuration/Platform combination.
Configuration='Debug' Platform='' [C:\temp\cobra-workspace\Source\Cobra.MSBui
ld\Targets\Cobra.targets]

I'll have to dig into this a bit more.

[nerdzero]

Okay, I am able to reproduce this by explicitly specifying values for the "Configuration" or "Platform" properties from the command line when trying to run that build target. Even if I explicitly set the values to blank, then I get the message.

I am not sure why it tries to import 'Microsoft.Common.targets' from .NET 2.0, but looking at the file I can see the conditions that will trigger this error message. I will try to fix it.

[nerdzero]

I was using single quotes instead of double-quotes when trying blank values. So, this seems to not trigger the problem for me:

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C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe /property:Configuration="";Platform="" /target:DisplayMSBuildExtensionsPath .\Cobra.MSBuild\Targets\Cobra.targets

DelphiGuy, can you try that when you get a chance and post the output?

[DelphiGuy]

DelphiGuy, can you try that when you get a chance and post the output?

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C:\temp\cobra-workspace\Source>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\m
sbuild.exe /property:Configuration="";Platform="" /target:DisplayMSBuildExtensio
nsPath .\Cobra.MSBuild\Targets\Cobra.targets
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 4.0.30319.17929
[Microsoft .NET Framework, version 4.0.30319.18052]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Build started 11/24/2013 1:05:54 PM.
Project "C:\temp\cobra-workspace\Source\Cobra.MSBuild\Targets\Cobra.targets" on
 node 1 (DisplayMSBuildExtensionsPath target(s)).
DisplayMSBuildExtensionsPath:
  C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild
Done Building Project "C:\temp\cobra-workspace\Source\Cobra.MSBuild\Targets\Cob
ra.targets" (DisplayMSBuildExtensionsPath target(s)).


Build succeeded.
    0 Warning(s)
    0 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.10

C:\temp\cobra-workspace\Source>

[nerdzero]

The issue with not being able to find the MSBuild extensions path is now fixed in changeset 3058. Thanks for testing, DelphiGuy.

[DelphiGuy]

yes, 3058 installs painlessly. thanks for the fix.

[kobi7]

Hi!
I'm on linux lubuntu, trying to compile the MonoDevelop addin,
which fails.
I just did cobra install.cobra from the directory.
Here is the output

Do you wish to continue? [Y/N]
y
Running xbuild...
Running /usr/local/bin/cobra...
Failed!
std out:
Compilation failed - 3 errors, 0 warnings

std err:
TypeSystem/Parser.cobra(12): error: Cannot find type for "TypeSystemParser".
Tooltips/TooltipProvider.cobra(11): error: Cannot find "TooltipProvider" at component 3 of qualified type.
Completion/CobraParameterDataProvider.cobra(8): error: Cannot find type for "ParameterDataProvider".


The addin was not installed due to compilation errors.

[nerdzero]

Which version of MonoDevelop do you have installed? Do you have multiple versions like both distribution provided and built from source?

[kobi7]

sorry, my bad. I only skimmed the readme.
I have now ran the compilation for monodevelop source from github, and the addin worked immediately.
Will soon spend some time with this.
Thank you, it feels good to have an IDE at hand.