Typescript TS5042 Build: Option 'project' cannot be mixed with source files on a command line

Question

I am receiving the following error across all typescript projects that I am trying run.

TS5042  Build: Option \'project\' cannot be mixed with source files on a          


        

Answer 1

The solution for me was pretty simple. I looked at the filepath for my project and realized one of the folder names in the file path had a space in it. When I renamed the folder without the space, TSC -p worked just fine. It seems like TSC, when parsing out command line args, splits it at spaces so it saw the part of my filepath name after the space as a file to compile.