The OutputPath property is not set for project

Question

Building my Jenkins/MSBuild solution gives me this error

c:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\Microsoft.Common.targets(483,9): error : 
The OutputP         


        

Answer 1

The OutputPath property is not set for project error message will appear if a Platform environment variable exists (as seems to happen on HP laptops) and the target of MSBuild contains a reference to another Visual Studio project.

After renaming the Platform environment variable my build now works.

It seems the parameter /p:Platform="Any CPU" gets applied to the target solution but doesn't 'carryover' to referenced projects. In my instance, the error message indicated referenced projects were using the environment variable Platform=MCD.