Building a website project as 32-bit on a 64-bit build server

Question

I have a VS 2010 solution that contains a website that has a web service within it. The web service references a COM dll that is causing problems when the solution is built on our 64-bit build server. I get the typical 32/64-bit error:

ASPNETCOMPILER : error ASPCONFIG: Could not load file or assembly 'xxx' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format

When I build the site using the 32-bit aspnet_compiler it builds okay. So, how do I specify that a website should be built as 32-bit? The Configuration Manager within VS will only let me choose Any CPU, so I cannot change it to x86 for this website...

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use the following command. Actually, in this case you are using ASPNetCompiler x86 edition to build your own project

call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
MSBuild MySolutiuon.sln 

You can also use x86_amd64 for any cpu. Note that instead of using MSBuild you can load your confiiguration like

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
 <Target Name="PrecompileWeb">
     <AspNetCompiler
         VirtualPath="/MyWebSite"
         PhysicalPath="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyWebSite\"
         TargetPath="c:\precompiledweb\MyWebSite\"
         Force="true"
         Debug="true"
         FixedNames="True"
     />
 </Target>
</Project> 

to use above confiuguration you have to use

MSBuild your.xml /p:Configuration=Release

Answer 2

@Vilx, Check the dependency walker to find out how far it gets. My guess is it would probably stop at vjsnativ.dll. If that's as far as it gets, try this workaround.

Otherwise you'll have to chase down each DLL that the program can't find, and copy them into your program (or its bin) directory.