Can not Export: The system cannot find the file specified

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart He built HISE from source earlier so VS must be installed correctly, no?

[Dlukas7]

@d-healey So what should I do? :D
I start to feel kinda desperate :D

[Christoph Hart]

well, maybe he didn't install msbuild. The VS installer procedure is a bit flaky so I have seen weirder things happen.

[Christoph Hart]

@Dlukas7 said in Can not Export: The system cannot find the file specified:

So what should I do?

Ctrl+R, then type in cmd, then msbuild. If it shows a error message ("this path can't be found"), then something went wrong with your VS install.

[Dlukas7]

@Christoph-Hart where ctrl + r? (sorry, I am really new to coding and those things)

[Christoph Hart]

In Windows :) It opens the Run command window that you can use to execute stuff.

[Dlukas7]

@Christoph-Hart doesnt work for me, isnt typing cmd enough or is that another kind of this thing?

[Christoph Hart]

Try something else. HISE looks for msbuild at this location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MsBuild.exe\

Please check if you have that directory and if the file exists there. If not, please make sure that you've ticked the msbuild box in the VS installer.

[Dlukas7]

@Christoph-Hart I have, the only thing is that its in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin
don't know if it makes difference so I ll just let you know

[Christoph Hart]

Lol why do you have VS Professional? You need the Community Edition ;)

[Dlukas7]

@Christoph-Hart You ve got to be kidding me... :DDD

[Dlukas7]

@Christoph-Hart can you please give me a link to that version please? (and I guess I must uninstall vs I have right now?) :D

[Christoph Hart]

Actually we should get this to work without reinstalling VS2017.you've come so far, it would be unfair :)

So let's start with the most stupid solution, maybe we get off this one the most laziest way. Just go into C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\ where you should have a Professional folder. Now just duplicate it and rename it to Community, then retry the export process. However it is extremely important that you tell no one I actually gave that advice :)

[Dlukas7]

@Christoph-Hart Why? :DD Will my pc start burning? :DDD

[Dlukas7]

@Christoph-Hart Ok I did it but I still have the same problem

[Dlukas7]

@Christoph-Hart
ok, so I did reinstal the VS 2017 Professional to the Community version, but I still can not export. Is there anything else I could do? (I have like a week for the whole plugin to be made, so I really need it done) thanks