gacutil postbuild event exists with code 1

Question

I am trying to register and assembly in the GAC on a post-build event. Here's my post-build command

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64\gacutil.exe" /if "$(TargetPath)"

I am on x64/Windows 7/VS2010. I am running VS2010 as an administrator and I have UAC turned off (which is pretty much all that my google-fu is finding for this problem).

The post build is exiting with code 1 for the all 4 instances of gacutil.exe I can find on my machine.

Anyone know a way around this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Copy the full post-build event command string (e.g. ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64\gacutil.exe" /if "D:\ProjectFolder\Project.Name\bin\Debug\Project.Name.dll" to the clip board, open a command prompt as an administrator, paste the post-build event, and press enter to execute. You'll get a more descriptive explanation of the exit code.

In my case, I had my project set to build to the wrong target framework. I switched it from .Net 4 to .Net 3.5 and the error went away.

Best of luck

Answer 2

SOLUTION:

Try to run Visual Studio as ADMIN to install things in GAC... :)

Answer 3

Mine is usually solved by iisreset.

Answer 4

Looks like your post build script is incorrect....Try using "$(DevEnvDir)....\SDK\v2.0\Bin\GacUtil.exe" /i "$(TargetPath)" /f

Answer 5

OS: Windows server 2012

.Net frame work 4.5

The path needs to be: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\gacutil.exe