[nant-dev] [ nant-Bugs-1902098 ] 3.5 Support failing on machine without VS2008 installed

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Bugs item #1902098, was opened at 2008-02-26 13:27
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Category: Framework support
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: André Næss (hisnessness)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 3.5 Support failing on machine without VS2008 installed

Initial Comment:
I have a build server on which I'm trying to use the latest 0.86-beta1 release. Trying to build my solution gave me the following error:

 [property] Target framework changed to "Microsoft .NET framework 3.5".

BUILD FAILED

INTERNAL ERROR

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at NAnt.Core.FrameworkInfo.get_Version()
   at NAnt.Core.Project.UpdateTargetFrameworkProperties()
   at NAnt.Core.Tasks.PropertyTask.ExecuteTask()
   at NAnt.Core.Task.Execute()
   at NAnt.Core.Project.InitializeProjectDocument(XmlDocument doc)
   at NAnt.Core.Project.Execute()
   at NAnt.Core.Project.Run()

Please send bug report to nan...@li....

I found a fairly simple fix, in the nant.exe.config, I changed the reading of the sdkInstallRoot registry key (in the framework 3.5 node) to:

<readregistry
  property="sdkInstallRoot"
  key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MicrosoftSDKs\Windows\v6.0A\InstallationFolder"
  hive="LocalMachine"
  failonerror="false" />

And the problem was solved.

Now, I'm using TeamCity as the CI-solution on this server, and when setting it up I had some issues with not being able to run builds at all. The server was complaining about a missing "al.exe". To get around this I copied the contents of the v6.0A SDK folder from my machine (which has VS2008 installed) to the build server. I also manually set up the above registry entry.

I'm not really sure where this problem is rooted. Is it simply me that haven't installed all the necessary stuff on my build server (I don't see Visual Studio as necessary stuff!), or is there something wrong with the .NET 3.5 framework installer. Or should NAnt use a different registry key?

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>Comment By: Gert Driesen (drieseng)
Date: 2008-02-26 18:06

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Can you try using a recent nightly build of NAnt (without your
NAnt.exe.config modifications), and report back whether this fixes the
issue for you?

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