[CB-13872] Can't build project with VS17 (15.5)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-windows
• Assignee: Jan Piotrowski (janpio)
• Reporter: Jan Piotrowski (janpio)
• Created: 12/Feb/18 19:53
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:50
• Resolved: 15/Feb/18 14:22

Description

If you just install VS2017 and the VS Build Tools (that include MSBuild) you can not build a project with current cordova-windows master, but get an error message like this.

C:\Projects\Cordova Projects\windowsMaster\platforms\windows\CordovaApp.Windows10.jsproj(61,13): error MSB4226: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Bui ldTools\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\JavaScript\Microsoft.VisualStudio.WJProject.Default.props" was not found. Also, tried to find "Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\JavaScript\Microsoft .VisualStudio.WJProject.Default.props" in the fallback search path(s) for $(MSBuildExtensionsPath) - "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild" . These search paths are defined in "C:\Program Files ( x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\bin\MSBuild.exe.Config". Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk in one of t he search paths.

There is no folder `JavaScript` in `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Bui ldTools\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0`, so there can be no file.

This folder seems to be chosen because of the MSBuild tools that are running the build.

Issue Links

• is superceded by: CB-13878 Enforce usage of specific version of MSBuildTools