This error may occur when building against earlier builds of NAnt as well.
Assuming the instructions in the readme.txt file (in the NAntContrib root folder) are followed, [1] NAnt is built successfully [2] NAntContrib.build is then executed with the command line specified The following error was encountered: ---snip--------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- buildtests: [copy] Copying 2 files to 'C:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\build\nantcontrib-0.85-debug\bin'. [csc] Compiling 4 files to 'C:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\build\nantcontrib-0.85-debug\bin\NAnt.Contrib. Tests.dll'. c:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\tests\Tasks\SourceSafe\GetTaskTest.cs(26,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'NUnit' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) c:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\tests\Util\SqlStatementListTests.cs(27,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'NUnit' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) c:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\tests\Util\SqlStatementListTests.cs(38,6): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'TestFixture' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) c:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\tests\Tasks\SourceSafe\GetTaskTest.cs(207,10): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'SetUp' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) c:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\tests\Tasks\SourceSafe\GetTaskTest.cs(319,10): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'TearDown' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) ... lines deleted for brevity ... c:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\tests\Tasks\SourceSafe\GetTaskTest.cs(610,10): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Test' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) c:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\tests\Tasks\SourceSafe\GetTaskTest.cs(183,6): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'TestFixture' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) BUILD FAILED C:\nantcontrib-0.85-20040317\NAntContrib.build(173,10): External Program Failed: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\csc.exe (return code was 1) ---snip--------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- After some investigation I found that NAntContrib.build looks for nunit.framework.dll and log4net.dll in a different location. After making the following changes to NAntContrib.build, I was able to build successfully. ---snip--------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- <!-- Build the unit tests library --> <target name="buildtests" depends="build" description="Compiles the NUnit Tests"> <!-- copy NAnt assemblies needed for the tests to run --> <copy todir="${build.dir}/bin" flatten="true"> <fileset basedir="${nant.dir}" failonempty="true"> <!-- <includes name="lib/${framework::get-family(framework::get-target-framework())}/${fram ework::get-version(framework::get-target-framework())}/nunit.framework.dll" /> --> *****************REMOVED THIS LINE <includes name="bin/nunit.framework.dll" /> ******ADDED THIS LINE <includes name="bin/NAnt.Core.dll" /> <includes name="bin/NAnt.DotNetTasks.dll" /> <!-- <includes name="lib/${framework::get-family(framework::get-target-framework())}/${fram ework::get-version(framework::get-target-framework())}/log4net.dll" /> --> *************************REMOVED THIS LINE <includes name="bin/log4net.dll" /> **************ADDED THIS LINE </fileset> </copy> <!-- compile the test assembly --> <csc target="library" warnaserror="true" nowarn="1591" debug="${build.debug}" define="${current.build.defines}" output="${build.dir}/bin/${project.FormalName}.Tests.dll"> <sources> <includes name="${tests.dir}/**/*.cs" /> <!-- common assembly-level attributes --> <includes name="${src.dir}/CommonAssemblyInfo.cs" /> </sources> <references> <!-- <includes name="${nant.dir}/lib/${framework::get-family(framework::get-target-framewor k())}/${framework::get-version(framework::get-target-framework())}/nunit.fra mework.dll" /> --> **************REMOVED THIS LINE <includes name="${nant.dir}/bin/nunit.framework.dll" /> ******ADDED THIS LINE ---snip--------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- This error is probably due to my not having the source to NUnit or Log4Net but I expect most folk rely on the files shipped with NAnt and would be in a similar situation. I hope you find this feedback useful Thanks for an excellent tool guys - please keep up the good work! Regards Subbu Balakrishnan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ NAntContrib-Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nantcontrib-developer