Question

I’ve seen several threads with the same issue, but none of the solutions seems to work for me so I’m trying it here.

I need a post-build script in VS2010 that moves a .lib file to a directroy (which possibly dosn’t exist yet; if so create it).

I am using this, which returns error code 2:

xcopy /y "$(TargetDir)$(ProjectName).lib" "$(SolutionDir)lib\$(ProjectName).lib"

Also tried, which returns error code 1: (what is the difference?)

copy /y "$(TargetDir)$(ProjectName).lib" "$(SolutionDir)lib\$(ProjectName).lib"

The most common issues people seem to hav is the lack of quotes on paths, but I have that.

Why dosn’t it work?

Answer 1

This ought to be closer:

if not exist "$(SolutionDir)lib" md "$(SolutionDir)lib"
xcopy /y /d "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)lib"