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dotnet build with multiple constants

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Hello,

I have a newly created f# netcoreapp2.1 console app with a vanilla fsproj file. I want to pass multiple constants to dotnet build. This works and the constants are validated when I run the program:

msbuild /p:DefineConstants="HELLO;WORLD"

… but this fails with MSB1006 errors:

dotnet build /p:DefineConstants="HELLO;WORLD"
dotnet build /p:DefineConstants=HELLO;WORLD
dotnet build /p:DefineConstants=\"Hello,World\"
dotnet build /p:DefineConstants=\"Hello;World\"
dotnet build /p:DefineConstants='Hello;World'
(...)

Is there a way to make this work with dotnet build cli? Thanks for the help.

Actual behavior

MSB1006 “property not valid…” is thrown

Environment data

dotnet sdk 2.1.300
win7-x64

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:10 (2 by maintainers)

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iotalambdacommented, Apr 23, 2020

I faced the same issue and the only working solution seems to be to escape the ; with %3B. E.g: dotnet clean; dotnet build "/p:DefineConstants=HELLO%3BWORLD"; dotnet run --no-build

1reaction

Keincommented, Jan 18, 2023

@CodeDux Clever, I’m stealing this.

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