Jenkins: no tool named MSBuild found

Question

Setting up a Pipeline build in Jenkins (Jenkins 2.6), copying the sample script for a git-based build gives: \"no tool named MSBuild found\". I have set MSBuild Tool in Ma

Answer 1

In Declarative Pipeline syntax, the tooling for MSBuild is a little clunkier. Here's how I've had to handle it, using a script block:

pipeline {
  agent { 
    label 'win-slave-node'
  }
  stages {
    stage('Build') {
      steps {
        script {
          def msbuild = tool name: 'MSBuild', type: 'hudson.plugins.msbuild.MsBuildInstallation'
          bat "${msbuild} SimpleWindowsProject.sln"
        } 
      } 
    } 
  } 
} 

In the older Scripted Pipeline syntax, it could be like this:

node('win-slave-node') {
  def msbuild = tool name: 'MSBuild', type: 'hudson.plugins.msbuild.MsBuildInstallation'

  stage('Checkout') {
    checkout scm
  }

  stage('Build') {
    bat "${msbuild} SimpleWindowsProject.sln"
  }
}