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Sign up What is going wrong when Visual Studio tells me “xcopy exited with code 4” up vote 70 down vote favorite 7 I'm not very familiar with post-build events, so I'm a little confused as to what's going wrong with my program. When compiling in visual studio 2010, I get the following: The command "xcopy C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\Library\dsoframer.ocx C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\bin\Debug\ /Y /E /D xcopy xcopy exited with code 4 sharing violation C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\ApplicationFiles C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\bin\Debug\ /Y /E /D xcopy C:\Users\Me\Path\url\ C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\bin\Debug\ /Y /E /D rmdir /S /Q C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\bin\Debug\.gwt-tmp" exited with code 4. The program appears to run fine, despite this error, but I don't want to just ignore this issue and hope nothing bad happens. Strangely, this line started out as only a single command (the first xcopy) but as I continued to compile the project (fixing other problems, mostly references) the error message expanded larger and larger. Any idea what could be going on? Edit: Here are the postbuild events that seem to be failing -- xcopy $(ProjectDir)Library\dsoframer.ocx $(TargetDir) /Y /E /D xcopy $(ProjectDir)ApplicationFiles $(TargetDir) /Y /E /D xcopy $(SolutionDir)com.myUrl.gwt\www $(TargetDir) /Y /E /D rmdir /S /Q $(TargetDir).gwt-tmp c# visual-studio-2010 visual-studio-2012 xcopy share|improve this question edited Mar 31 '14 at 13:41 Arafat 6021617 asked Apr 11 '11 at 19:37 Raven Dreamer 2,80394077 Apart from answers below, also make sure to open VS with Administrator privileges. Copy to specific locations require admin rights. –Nikhil Agrawal Jul 28 at 9:59 add a comment| 9 Answers 9 active oldest votes up vote 99 down vote accepted Xcopy
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as an InstallShield project folder. It only involves a single project property post-build event settings to configure. Right-click on your application project in Visual Studio Solution Explorer and select Properties. Select Build Events in the left column. Under "Post-build event command line:" enter the following with your desired destination: xcopy "$(TargetDir)*.*" "C:\InstallShieldProjects\JoeApp" /E /Y /C For a Release build with the default output path of "bin\Release", all files and subfolders of this directory (designated by the $(TargetDir) macro with the *.* wildcard characters) will be copied to the path you specify. The xcopy parameters are as follows: /E copy all files and subfolders /Y surpress the copy operation prompt /C ignore errors Without the /Y and in some cases /C parameters the build will fail with the message "exited with code 4". Without the "*.* wildcard" the build will fail with the message "exited with code 2". Latest News more» © 1998–2016 JoeMeeks.net. All rights reserved.