Command-line Package Service Fabric Application

Question

Our continuous delivery set-up, until recently, was delivering Service Fabric packages using the following command:

msbuild SFApp.sfproj /t:Package

Answer 1

We have had the exact same problem as you had and I have been looking around for a solution all over the web and did some experiments. Those are the steps that worked for us:

1. Don't manually add a target anywhere as suggested by other answers on StackOverflow. Not necessary. Especially in a CI environment, you want to build the projects separately anyways.
2. Prepare the projects in the Solution: Change the target platform for all projects to x64
3. Build the application

msbuild.exe SFAplication.xproj /p:Configuration=Release /target:rebuild

3. Package the App

msbuild.exe SFAplication.sfproj /p:Configuration=Release /target:Package