Post Build exited with code 1

Question

I have a project with a post build event:

copy $(ProjectDir)DbVerse\\Lunaverse.DbVerse.*.exe  $(TargetDir)

It works fine every time on my m

Answer 1

I just received the same error. I had a % in the destination path that needed to be escaped

c:\projects\%NotAnEnvironmentVariable%

needed to be

c:\projects\%%NotAnEnvironmentVariable%%

Answer 2

I had to run VS as Administrator to get my post-build copy to an OS protected "..\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies" to work

Answer 3

The one with the "Pings" helped me... but may be explained a little better...

For me the solution was to change:

copy $(TargetDir)$(TargetName).* $(SolutionDir)bin

to this:

copy "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).*" "$(SolutionDir)bin"

Hope it works for you. :-)

Answer 4

So many solutions...

In my case, I had to save the bat file with non-unicode (Western, Windows) encoding. By default when I added the file to visual studio (and probably I should have done it outside of the VS), it added with UTF-8 encoding.

Answer 5

As a matter of good practice I suggest you replace the post build event with a MS Build File Copy task.

Answer 6

My reason for the Code 1 was that the target folder was read only. Hope this helps someone! I had a post build event to do a copy from one directory to another and the destination was read only. So I just went and unchecked the read-only attribute on the directory and all its subdirectories! Just make sure that its a directory that's safe to do so!