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The #tool directive does not support the newer NUnit.Console packge

See original GitHub issue

What You Are Seeing?

Analyzing build script...
Processing build script...
Installing tools...
Could not find any relevant files for tool 'NUnit.Console'. Perhaps you need an include parameter?

The NuGet package is retrieved but the tool is not able to be found.

What is Expected?

The tool can be found!

What version of Cake are you using?

Cake.0.18.0-alpha0033

Are you running on a 32 or 64 bit system?

What environment are you running on? Windows? Linux? Mac?

Windows

How Did You Get This To Happen? (Steps to Reproduce)

Just add #tool "nuget:?package=NUnit.Console" to the top of you cake script

Output Log

PS C:\Workspace\QualityAssurance\Automation\XQA> .\build.ps1 -Verbose
Preparing to run build script...
VERBOSE: Trying to find nuget.exe in PATH...
VERBOSE: Downloading NuGet.exe...
VERBOSE: Restoring tools from NuGet...
VERBOSE: Feeds used:
  C:\Users\kywhi\.nuget\packages\
  https://www.myget.org/F/cake/api/v3/index.json

Restoring NuGet package Cake.0.18.0-alpha0033.
  GET https://www.myget.org/F/cake/api/v3/flatcontainer/cake/0.18.0-alpha0033/cake.0.18.0-alpha0033.nupkg
  OK https://www.myget.org/F/cake/api/v3/flatcontainer/cake/0.18.0-alpha0033/cake.0.18.0-alpha0033.nupkg 1619ms
Installing Cake 0.18.0-alpha0033.
Adding package 'Cake.0.18.0-alpha0033' to folder 'C:\Workspace\QualityAssurance\Automation\XQA\tools'
Added package 'Cake.0.18.0-alpha0033' to folder 'C:\Workspace\QualityAssurance\Automation\XQA\tools'
Running build script...
Analyzing build script...
Processing build script...
Installing tools...
Could not find any relevant files for tool 'NUnit.Console'. Perhaps you need an include parameter?
Error: Failed to install tool 'NUnit.Console'.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

devleadcommented, Dec 20, 2016

You could probably try and use the &include=./**/* syntax introduced in cake-build/cake#1202

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RSchwoerercommented, Jun 20, 2017

Here’s the #tool directive for using NUnit.Console that is working for me, using the &include syntax…

#tool nuget:?package=NUnit.Console&include=../Nunit.ConsoleRunner/**/*

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