*.dll.licenses file in obj directory not created with msbuild in TeamCity

Question

I am working on upgrading our TeamCity projects from VS2012 to VS2015 and I am running into an issue compiling our MVC application.

Old MSBuild (v4.0.30319.34209) g

Answer 1

We had the same problem when building with VisualBuild. I found a solution without installing the Win10 SDK:

In the projects properties Compile Settings we added a "Pre-build Event Command Line" like this:

pushd "%VS120COMNTOOLS%..\..\VC"
call vcvarsall.bat
popd
pushd $(ProjectDir)\"My Project"
lc /target:$(TargetFileName) /complist:licenses.licx /outdir:"..\obj\$(ConfigurationName)"
popd
popd

This command uses the (older) VS12 Tools and starts the lc compiler tool manually prior to the build of the project and compiles the licenses.licx file into the *.licenses resource file