I'm setting up our build server. I've installed Jenkins on a Windows 7 machine and am running into problems when building the 64 bit version of our solution.
We're using Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop. Jenkins uses the MSBuild plugin and is targeting the 64 bit MSbuild exe at
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe
However, when it runs msbuild an evironment variable is not being parsed properly. VCTargetsPath.
If I leave everything as-is then the output of MSBuild is this
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
I played around a bit with the VCTargetsPath variables in the registry, Windwos Environment Variables and as Jenkins Eviornment Variables too. I noticed this behavior.
If I set VCTargetsPath to be "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110" then the output of msbuild is the same as above. However, if I set it to "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0" then the output changes to this.
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\progra~2\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.
The tile Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props is found in "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110" I checked the limits on environment variable length and it's supposed to be 2048 characters. Am I missing something obvious here? I've found some info that basically says I am going to have to reinstall everything in a specific order, which is quite annoying (but also very Microsofty).
