How do I get errors to propagate in the TeamCity PowerShell runner

Question

I have a TeamCity 7 Build Configuration which is pretty much only an invocation of a .ps1 script using various TeamCity Parameters.

I was hoping that mig

Answer 1

Just praise the lawd you don't need to work with Jenkins.. Can't use the PowerShell step for similar issues. Instead we need to use a "cmd" step that calls the following magic wrapper that will fail the step on exception and exit codes:

%SystemRoot%\sysnative\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -Command "& { $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'; & 'path\to\script.ps1 -arg1 -arg2; EXIT $LASTEXITCODE }"