[NAnt-users] Why would nant's task attempt to link with a non-existent lib file?

[Rami Abughazaleh]

Hello.

 

I have a VC++ 2003 solution that has several projects that I am trying to build with the <solution> task.

 

I have a project named "Service" that generates an exe used as a windows service for the application.

 

This project has an idl file that is used by midl to generate a tlb.

 

The tlb file gets generated correctly.

 

However, I have another project called "SystemTray" that #includes the generated header file that contains the interfaces from the "Service" project.

 

During nant's <solution> compilation of the "SystemTray" project, I get the following error:

 

 [solution] Starting solution build.
 [solution] Building 'MainApplication' [Release] ...
 [solution] Building 'Service' [Release] ...
 [solution] Building 'SystemTray' [Release] ...
                 [link] Linking 114 files.
                 [link] LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:\ProjectName\SRC\Service\Release\Service.lib'

 

BUILD FAILED - 0 non-fatal error(s), 2 warning(s)

 

External Program Failed: link (return code was 1181)

 

Total time: 11.7 seconds.

 

Why would nant's <solution> task think there should be a lib file and attempt to link with it?

 

Any ideas on how to work around this issue?

 

(The solution builds correctly in VS2003) 

 

I am using NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.2308.0; nightly; 4/27/2006). 

 

Thank you.

-Rami