Subject was misspelled - sorry. ____________________________________ From: kroge...@aol.com To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com, monodevelop-l...@lists.ximian.com Sent: 9/12/2010 3:41:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: Custom ITaks in MonoDevelop
Hello, Lists: I received some clarification from list members right after I submitted my last E-mail. I got waylayed for a while, but now I'm back on it. Thanks to the folks who helped me. The information I got indicated that xbuild had to be turned on within MonoDevelop if any Custom Tasks need to be called. I've done this. I get a couple of error messages: "Error initializing task Message: cannot cast from source type to destination type" "Error initializing task CreateItem: cannot cast from source type to destination type". This occurs in a simple file that does not even have any custom tasks in it (I actually commented them out in the .csproj file) that otherwise builds fine without the xbuild switch turned on in MonoDevelop. I just upgraded to mono 2.6.7 to continue with this work. I'm using the latest MonoDevelop, which I also downloaded at the same time. This seems to me like it might be an incorrect version of a dll somewhere. Does anybody have any advice? A snippet from the bottom of my .csproj file is: <!-- This section is a very simple test to copy a file. --> <!-- <PropertyGroup> <FileToCopy>TestClass1.txt</FileToCopy> </PropertyGroup> <PropertyGroup> <Dest>bin\</Dest> </PropertyGroup> <Target Name="AfterBuild"> <Copy SourceFiles="$(FileToCopy)" DestinationFolder="$(Dest)" /> </Target> --> I'm starting simple here - only using the ITasks that are provided from Microsoft and seem to be provided in the Mono distribution, too. The AfterBuild Target is in the Mono version of Microsoft.Common.Targets, so I'm assuming it can be used the same way as in MSBuild. I'm including the solution file. If anyone can help us get this running, we'll submit my intern's report on this to the community. What we are (eventually) trying to achieve is to perform builds across Windows-VS, Windows-mono, Linux-mono and Mac-mono environments with the same solution and project files. Our plan entails putting certain build-wide variables into a configuration file that lives in the solution folder and that will be accessed to determine platform-specific directories and other platform-specific information. Thanks in advance; Kurt Matis Troy, NY ____________________________________ From: kroge...@aol.com To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com, monodevelop-l...@lists.ximian.com Sent: 8/4/2010 8:29:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: Does xbuild support the ITask interface? Hello, lists: I don't know if this a MonoDevelop question or a more general Mono question, so I'm posting to both lists. We are trying to learn MonoDevelop and how it can be used for cross-platform builds. We've got a pretty good handle on developing with it and figured out a few tricks of our own. We are using CustomCommands to some platform-specifc tasks and that seems to work pretty well. We were wondering if xbuild supports the extensions that can be built for msbuild that inherit from the ITask interface. What we have in mind is loading platform-specific DLL's that implement some custom tasks on Mac, Suse and Windows. We need to write some platform-specific C# code for each platform (we think) that fiddles with operating system permissions, does some file inspections and a few other things. If it's not already supported, do you think there are any technology barriers that prevent it? If it's not a huge job, we could provide some help. It's not quite clear from the website whether the custom tasks are supported. I usually download the source code for various Mono facilities and inspect it to find such information, but maybe someone can give me a quick answer? Thanks in advance Kurt Matis Troy, NY
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