Asp.Net Core RC2 Error "Failed to make the following project runnable"

Steps to reproduce

I have a MVC project I have just upgraded to RC2 and is checked into version control. When I build the project with “dotnet build” I get an access denied error on the config file. If I checkout app.config (e.g. remove the read only flag) it will build successfully.

Expected behavior

Project should build.

Actual behavior

I get the error:

Failed to make the following project runnable: xxx (.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1) reason: Access to the path ‘E:…\bin\Debug\net461\win7-x64\xxx.exe.config’ is denied.

Environment data

dotnet --info output: .NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-preview1-002702)

Product Information: Version: 1.0.0-preview1-002702 Commit Sha: 6cde21225e

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Windows OS Version: 6.3.9600 OS Platform: Windows RID: win81-x64

[mafshin]

I have the same issue. If a project references another project, the build path is computed relative and can’t find the binary file. Please provide a workaround.

Failed to make the following project runnable: XXXX (.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1)

reason: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Projects\YYYYYY\bin\Debug\log4net.dll'.	

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\DotNet\Microsoft.DotNet.Common.Targets	241	

[AllanTouring]

I followed the link provided in the fix by @Frisch12. There is a workaround to remove the read only attribute from offending file and directory in the project.json file. I modified this to remove read only from the whole bin directory as:

"scripts": { "precompile": [ "cmd /c echo Removing read-only attributes in %project:Directory%\\bin\\ as a workaround&& cmd /c attrib -r %project:Directory%\\bin\\* /s" ], "postpublish": [ "dotnet publish-iis --publish-folder %publish:OutputPath% --framework %publish:FullTargetFramework%" ] }