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DotnetRestore target failed during build

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Description

I have been trying to build Paket solution using build.cmd that comes with the repo and the build fails at Target DotnetRestore complaining “Cannot start process because a file name has not been provided.”

Repro steps

Clone repo
Run build.cmd from the command line.

Expected behavior

The build script should run successfully.

Actual behavior

I’m getting the following error.

Starting Target: DotnetRestore (==> Build) restore C:\Users\nelson.lin\Source\Github\Paket\src\Paket.Core\Paket.Core\project.json Running build failed. Error: System.Exception: Start of process failed. Cannot start process because a file name has not been provided. at Fake.ProcessHelper.ExecProcessWithLambdas@79-16.Invoke(String message) in C:\code\FAKE\src\app\FakeLib\ProcessHelper.fs:line 79 at Fake.ProcessHelper.ExecProcessWithLambdas(FSharpFunc2 configProcessStartInfoF, TimeSpan timeOut, Boolean silent, FSharpFunc2 errorF, FSharpFunc2 messageF) in C:\code\FAKE\src\app\FakeLib\ProcessHelper.fs:line 79 at FSI_0005.Fake.DotNet.Cli.Dotnet(DotnetOptions options, String args) at FSI_0005.Fake.DotNet.Cli.DotnetRestore(FSharpFunc2 setParams, String project) at FSI_0005.Build.clo@151-9.Invoke(String proj) at Microsoft.FSharp.Collections.SeqModule.Iterate[T](FSharpFunc2 action, IEnumerable1 source) at FSI_0005.Build.clo@148-8.Invoke(Unit _arg1) at Fake.TargetHelper.runSingleTarget(TargetTemplate`1 target) in C:\code\FAKE\src\app\FakeLib\TargetHelper.fs:line 492

Known workarounds

n/a

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:34 (19 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

forkicommented, Nov 1, 2016

Question is if it’s even possible to have net 45 + coreclr build in same fsproj

Am 01.11.2016 11:57 vorm. schrieb “Steffen Forkmann” sforkmann@gmail.com:

Yeah I guess that’s one for tomorrow

Am 01.11.2016 11:28 vorm. schrieb “Tomasz Heimowski” < notifications@github.com>:

Starting Target: DotnetRestore (==> InstallDotNetCore) dotnetcore/dotnet.exe restore c:\github\Paket\src\Paket.Core\Paket.Core\project.json MSBUILD : error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. [c:\github\Paket\src\Paket.Core\Paket.Core\project.json]

Looks like the latest restore doesn’t expect JSON format anymore 😃

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enricosadacommented, Jan 24, 2018

Closing, now should work

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