endjin / teamcityilmergemetarunner

A Meta Runner for TeamCity that allows you to run ILMerge as a Build Step

ILMerge Meta-Runner for TeamCity

A TeamCity Meta-Runner that provides a user interface to configure and run ILMerge. The Meta-Runner contains the help text from the official ILMerge documentation.

##Installation To install the plugin, first download the zip from the releases section in the GitHub repo, then log into TeamCity with an account that has Admin privileges. Then navigate to Administration > Server Administration > Plugins List and then use the "Upload plugin zip" hyperlink.

##Issues We've tested the Meta-Runner for our main use cases, but please raise an issue if you encounter any problems using this plugin.

@HowardvRooijen | @endjin | This is an endjin Open Source project.

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ILMerge is Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

teamcityilmergemetarunner's Issues

Missing quotation marks in target platforms

Target platforms for v3.5 and v4.5.2 have quotation marks around the target platform parameters, but others do not. As can be seen in code here.

This leads to all other target platforms failing with the following error:
The term 'x86' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

The script exists with code 0 when an exception is thrown

When running a build with the ILMerge build step misconfigured I encountered the following case:

[10:12:14]Step 1/1: ILMerge (Powershell) (9s)
[10:12:14]PowerShell Executable: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
[10:12:14]Working directory: D:\BuildAgent\work\1da22302571c8a0a
[10:12:14]PowerShell arguments: [-Version, 3.0, -NoProfile, -NonInteractive, -ExecutionPolicy, ByPass, -File, D:\BuildAgent\temp\buildTmp\powershell311865347830204534.ps1]
[10:12:18]Command to Execute: & "C:\BuildAgent\tools\ilmerge-metarunner\bin\ilmerge.exe" [Redacted]
[10:12:23]An exception occurred during merging: ILMerge.Merge: Could not find the file '[Redacted]'. at ILMerging.ILMerge.Merge() at ILMerging.ILMerge.Main(String[] args)
[10:12:23]Process exited with code 0

The ILMerge fails with an exception, but since the process exists with code 0 TeamCity thinks that the step succeeded and continues normally.

Some parameters of the ILMerge command, including the /lib parameter, are missing a colon before the value

According to the ILMerge documentation:

All options that take arguments can use either ":" or "=" as a separator. Options can be in any order, but all of the options must precede the list of input assemblies.

Here's a slightly modified row from a build log showing the command that is run on the agent:

Command to Execute: & "C:\BuildAgent\tools\ilmerge-metarunner\bin\ilmerge.exe" /lib Program\bin\Release\ /target:library /targetplatform:"v4,C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NETFramework\v4.5.2" Generic.dll Another.dll /out:Generic.dll

A quick code study shows that other parameters are also suffering from the same issue.

.NET 4.7 support

Missing .NET 4.7 support