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Having a problem with adding msbuild to git bash for Win10
already added msbuild to system vars and to path too
CMD msbuild calls fine
already tried this solution
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To enable msbuild in Command Prompt, you simply have to add the directory of the msbuild.exe install on your machine to the PATH environment variable. You can access the environment variables by: Right clicking on Computer. Click Properties.
To install MSBuild on a system that doesn't have Visual Studio, go to Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019, or install the . NET SDK. If you have Visual Studio, then you already have MSBuild installed. With Visual Studio 2022, it's installed under the Visual Studio installation folder.
To run MSBuild at a command prompt, pass a project file to MSBuild.exe, together with the appropriate command-line options. Command-line options let you set properties, execute specific targets, and set other options that control the build process.
Click on System and Security and then on System. In the left pane, click on Advanced system settings. At the very bottom of the pop up, click on Environment Variables. Edit the Path variable and append the folder's path that contains the MSBuild.exe to it (e.g., ;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.
Use msbuild.exe in Git Bash instead of msbuild.
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If you want to refer to an environment variable you need to prefix it with $, like $msbuild. I'm not sure that is the best idea though, nor modifying the system path: what if you have different versions of msbuild?
Anyway, your real problem is that the command isn't msbuild, it is MSBuild.exe. And a convenient way of adding it to the mingw environment is making sure it is already in the path before starting bash. For example, create a batch file 'msbuild-git-bash.bat' in the same directory as git-bash.bat, containing
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"
git-bash.bat
then use that instead and type msbu and hit tab to get command completion:
Note this example is for VS2013, for other versions the path to vsdevcmd.bat will be different but the principle is the same. Also because of using it, nmake/cl/link/... are also all available.
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