Re: [NUnitAsp-devl] Building NUnit - Specified file cannot be found: NUnitAsp.snk

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Ted Husted wrote:

>Thanks, Cory. I'm good now, but if I were to use NAnt for anything
>else, I'm certain this would help.
>  
>

Thanks to both of you for investigating this.  I've updated the FAQ:

        Q: When I try to compile NUnitAsp with NAnt, the build says
        "External program returned errors". What's wrong?

    A: The build script is set up to work with .NET 1.0 by default. It
    sets an environment variable called DotNetToolDir to point to your
    .NET 1.0 directory. If that directory doesn't exist, the build won't
    be able to find "sn.exe" and will fail with this error:

    keypair:
    [exec] sn -k NUnitAsp.snk

    BUILD FAILED
    C:\projects\nunitasp\NUnitAsp.build(50,4): External program returned
    errors, see build log for details.
    Try 'nant -help' for more information

    To correct this, make sure you've set DotNetToolDir correctly and
    that sn.exe is in that path.

    Once you have that working, NAnt will give you a different error:

    BUILD FAILED
    C:\projects\nunitasp\NUnitAsp.build(90,6):
    [csc] C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\csc.exe failed to
    start.
    The system cannot find the file specified

    This error occurs because NAnt uses .NET 1.0 by default. At this
    point, you can use Visual Studio to build or you can edit
    NAnt.exe.config in the lib\NAnt directory. If you edit the config
    file, set the default framework to 1.1:

    <frameworks>
      <platform name="win32" default="net-1.1">
        ...
      </platform>
    </frameworks>

    Many thanks to Ted Husted for pointing this out and to Cory Foy for
    blogging the solution
    <http://www.cornetdesign.com/2005/04/targetting-nant-to-different-framework.html>.

Regards,
Jim

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