C#•3y ago

✅ Copy files generated by command to build output

During a build, I want to run a command to build a Vue project which outputs its files to a folder, then copy the files from that folder to a

wwwroot

wwwroot

folder in the project's build output. How would I do this? I know I can use

Exec

Exec

to run the command which works fine, but I don't know how I would copy the files properly while preserving the subfolder structure.

Pobiega•9/27/23, 9:55 PM

we do that in the dockerfile at work. Not an answer to your question, but perhaps an alternative

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 9:55 PM

You have a problem
Use Docker to solve problem
You have two problems

Pobiega•9/27/23, 9:55 PM

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 9:56 PM

I'm not using Docker in this project (yet) so that feels very overkill

Pobiega•9/27/23, 9:56 PM

sure

Pobiega•9/27/23, 9:56 PM

you could check how the project template does it

Pobiega•9/27/23, 9:56 PM

it does it with msbuild

Dorkair•9/27/23, 9:56 PM

Mayor McCheese•9/27/23, 10:10 PM

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/task-writing?view=vs-2022 ?

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:11 PM

yeah at this point idk why this doesn't work

reflectronic•9/27/23, 10:15 PM

have you tried looking at a binlog

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:17 PM

okay now I'm using this from the React template

...and it's still not working

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:18 PM

As in, the wwwroot just doesn't appear in the folder

reflectronic•9/27/23, 10:18 PM

you are sure that actually happens, right

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:19 PM

it absolutely does

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:28 PM

okay this is the entire target

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:29 PM

Most of this is copied from the React template and I don't get what is wrong

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:30 PM

I tried changing to but that caused an error saying .

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:42 PM

Another thing which does not work

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:48 PM

Doesn't do anything either

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:48 PM

And there doesn't seem to be a difference between and

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 10:55 PM

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:02 PM

Idk how to debug this even

reflectronic•9/27/23, 11:03 PM

looking at the binlog would help

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:03 PM

where is that?

reflectronic•9/27/23, 11:03 PM

oh you don't even know

reflectronic•9/27/23, 11:03 PM

https://msbuildlog.com/

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:11 PM

odd, there's only one parameter to the copy task

reflectronic•9/27/23, 11:12 PM

do you see any Add Item elements in the target

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:12 PM

There's one for , but none for the catthinking

reflectronic•9/27/23, 11:19 PM

can you try

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:22 PM

For in the copy task, or ?

reflectronic•9/27/23, 11:23 PM

for DistFiles

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:25 PM

no difference afaict

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:32 PM

okay I think the issue is that doesn't exist

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:34 PM

it refuses to allow me to concatenate god damn strings catlost

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:38 PM

This just refuses to work

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:40 PM

If I do then it just prints

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:40 PM

So doesn't exist???

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:41 PM

It lets me do which prints it properly, but doesn't let me do

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:41 PM

because it can't concatenate strings??????

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:42 PM

why doesn't this work

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:42 PM

again doesn't even show up in the log

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:43 PM

like what

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:44 PM

It's clearly there but it refuses to work

reflectronic•9/27/23, 11:45 PM

oh. VueProject is an item. $(VueProject) does not do anything

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:46 PM

I feel so dumb

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:47 PM

THIS WORKS

ThinkerOP•9/27/23, 11:48 PM

So if I just don't use then it's fine, it's just kinda uglier