How do I pass multiple ReferencePath in MSBuild in the command line. I'm currently using this
MSBuild /t:Rebuild "Solution1.sln" /p:ReferencePath="C:\My Library 1\obj\Debug; C:\My Library 2\obj\Debug"
MSBuild is returning an MSB1006 error. Take note that my reference paths have spaces in it.
Try escaping the semicolons as %3b
Try moving the quotes around the entire property expression, not just the values
/p:"Name=Value One;Value Two"
I had the same problem. This worked for me:
msbuild {{slnPath}} /t:rebuild /p:OutDir={{outputpath}} /p:Configuration=Release
Specify /p for every parameter
This wasn't working in powershell
msbuild C:\temp\project.sln /p:referencepath="C:\Checkout\References
\CRM 2011;C:\Checkout\References\Log4Net\4.0\release"
but works fine from an old fashioned cmd prompt.
No matter what I do, I can't seem to make it work using MSBuild. I now use DEVENVE.EXE to compile my solution; it would read my user project settings where the ReferencePath is saved and use that to locate the correct version of the DLL I want to use.
replacing the ';' with '3%B' seems to work in my setup with Nant and Jenkins
This worked for me, using MSBuild 2019 and setting the value below for command line arguments. This is in Jenkins 2.516.2 with all plugins up-to-date and MSBUILD plugin version 1.37.
/p:"ReferencePath=\"D:\data\jenkins\AdditionalAssemblies;D:\data\jenkins\AdditionalAssembliesVS2022\""
MSBuild requires quotes around the ReferencePath value if it contains a semicolon - otherwise, the bit behind the semicolon is treated as a separate parameter and MSBUILD reports an error like:
MSBUILD : error MSB1006: Property is not valid.
Switch: D:\data\jenkins\AdditionalAssembliesVS2022\
For some reason, Jenkins removes double as well as single quotes if they aren't escaped (and escaping them properly seems to be an adventure in itself). I'm not sure why or whether the ReferencePath parameter needs to be in quotes, after a lot of experimentation this is the first one that worked and I've already wasted too much time. What I don't understand is how there isn't proper documentation on how to do it, and it remained a mystery for decades (I, at least, wasn't able to find a solution).
For complete context, here's a screenshot of how I'm using it:
