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Error Msb3073 The Command Exited With Code 2
error MSB3073: The command "if exist C:\Users\Incubbus\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\My Libraries\MyNetWorkProject\Debug\IncNetworkLibD.lib xcopy "C:\Users\Incubbus\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\My Libraries\MyNetWorkProject\Debug\IncNetworkLibD.lib" "C:\Users\Incubbus\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\My Libraries\z.lib" /Y :VCEnd" exited with code 2. I am also wondering about the :VCEnd in the command-string of the error message <- Maybe this is the reason? How to get this solved? Any help and hints would be happily consumed :)... partial solution: EDIT: it looks like the renaming part (Inc.lib to z.lib) makes trouble, when xcopy asks whether this is a file or a directory...it works when i just copy the originally named file to a directory instead of copying renamed visual-studio msbuild visual-studio-2012 xcopy post-build-event share|improve this question edited Dec 23 '12 at 21:58 asked Dec 23 '12 at 21:15 Incubbus 81231843 1 Copy/paste the PostBuildEvent from your project file into your question. Don't edit it, make it look exactly the same way. –Hans Passant Dec 23 '12 at 21:48 it looks like the renaming part (Inc.lib to z.lib) makes trouble, when xcopy asks wether this is a file or a directory... this works when i just copy the lib-file to a directory without renaming it... –Incubbus Dec 23 '12 at 21:56 1 stackoverflow.com/a/428
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Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring post build xcopy developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join error msb3073 the command xcopy exited with code 2 the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up What is going wrong when http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14014763/vs-2012-post-build-xcopy-error-2 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 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 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5626557/what-is-going-wrong-when-visual-studio-tells-me-xcopy-exited-with-code-4 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 exit code 4 means "Initialization error occurred. There is not enough memory or disk space, or you entered an invalid drive n
Languages , .NET Framework > Visual C# Question 0 Sign in to vote I am having the following post-build command https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/6957dce2-ce7e-4690-a83c-991ff80f5e1b/what-is-the-problem-with-this-xcopy-in-postbuild?forum=csharpgeneral in a Visual Studio project: xcopy $(ProjectDir)Data $(OutDir)\ The Data is a directory in the project folder which I want to have copied to bin/debug or bin/release after build https://jeremybytes.blogspot.com/2014/02/using-build-events-in-visual-studio-to.html completes successfully. I am getting an error as below: The command "xcopy E:\Lavanya Deepak\Projects\matrimonial\Data bin\Debug\" exited with code 4. Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:37 PM Reply | Quote Answers 0 exited with Sign in to vote Why are you using Xcopy for something that Visual Studio can do already? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306234 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0c6xyb66%28v=vs.80%29.aspx Besides, this is a issue with XCOPY, not with Visual C# or Visual Studio (wich this forum is about). Perhaps you better look into the documentation or ask in a admin Forum?Let's talk about MVVM: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/b1a8bf14-4acd-4d77-9df8-bdb95b02dbe2 Please mark post as helpfull exited with code and answers respectively. Marked as answer by Bob ShenMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, July 22, 2013 9:23 AM Thursday, July 11, 2013 4:34 PM Reply | Quote 0 Sign in to vote Hi, use the copy-command insted of xcopy. Regards, Thorsten Marked as answer by Bob ShenMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, July 22, 2013 9:23 AM Thursday, July 11, 2013 4:49 PM Reply | Quote 0 Sign in to vote You have have to put something before your $(OutDir) as the $(OutDir) is a relative path going to bin\Debug xcopy $(ProjectDir}Data $(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)\ I didn't try this, but I just ran into a similar problem and this was my solution Marked as answer by Bob ShenMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, July 22, 2013 9:23 AM Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:01 PM Reply | Quote All replies 0 Sign in to vote Why are you using Xcopy for something that Visual Studio can do already? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306234 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0c6xyb66%28v=vs.80%29.aspx Besides, this is a issue with XCOPY, not with Visual C# or Visual Studio (wich this forum is about). Perhaps yo
primarily to copy files around after building projects, but we can use them to run any commands that we want. Let's take a look at the options, and then I'll show how I use them. Build Events Build Events are part of the Project options, and they are often overlooked. If we open up the "Properties" for a project, we get the following screen: This lets us run command-line commands either before the project is built (pre-build events) or after (post-build events). Although, we do get a drop-down to select if the post-build event runs or not. The default value "On successful build" is usually where I keep this value. This way, the post-build event will *not* run if there is a build failure. Other options include "Always" and "When the build updates the project output." You may be curious about this last option. Visual Studio is lazy about compiling things, so it will only build if the source files have changed. If we select "When the build updates the project output", then the post-build event will only run if the compiler updates the output files on this project. We can basically put anything in here that we could run from the command line. And Visual Studio provides macros to make it easier. So, even though we can type straight into these text boxes, it's much better to click the "Edit Pre-build..." or "Edit Post-build..." buttons to bring up the dialog. The Build Event Dialog The build event dialog is where things start to get interesting. Well, they aren't actually very interesting at first (this dialog is already populated with a command which we'll talk about in just a bit): But, when we click the "Macros", we can see how Visual Studio can really help us out: This shows us a number of macros that we can use in our commands. We can add the macros by simply double-clicking on the item. This will add a corresponding placeholder that has the format $(xxx). These macros will be replaced with actual values when the event runs. Here's a complete list of the available macros (this is from Visual Studio 2013, but this dialog has not changed for quite a while): Let's take a look at the "TargetDir" macro. In the value column, we see this expanded out to the full path of the output folder. But here's why using macros is compelling: If I move this project to a different folder, this TargetDir macro