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Unable to find msbuild.

See original GitHub issue

I am trying to run this action on a self-hosted runner.

- name: Add msbuild to PATH
  uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1.0.0
    with:
      vs-version: 15.0

Here’s the output:

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe” -version 15 -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -find MSBuild**\Bin\MSBuild.exe ##[error]Unable to find msbuild.

I tried doing the following, but it says it expects string, number, or boolean, not an array.

vs-version:
  [15.0,15.9]

I have Visual Studio Build tools installed on this server.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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ranjjose-chazcommented, Jul 28, 2020

I’m too stuck with the same issue: This is from my GitHub-actions yml file: (hosted on aws)

- name: Dependency - MSBuild
  uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1.0.1
  with:
    vswhere-path: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer'

resulting in the error in the step:

Run microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1.0.1 “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe” -products * -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -property installationPath -latest ##[error]Unable to find MSBuild.

I did add MSBuild location in the system path variable as well.

What am I missing? Thanks for the consideration

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caibinwav123456commented, May 21, 2021

I’ve come across the same issue, see: https://github.com/microsoft/setup-msbuild/issues/20#issuecomment-845835155