I'm trying to make a Nant script, it has been going well so far, but I wish to not hard code file locations. This is well and good until I have to execute nunit-console.exe which I can't seem to do. What I have found so far relating to this is:
<target name="test">
<property name="windows-path" value="${string::to-lower(environment::get-variable('PATH'))}"/>
<property name="nunit-in-path" value="${string::contains(windows-path, 'nunit')}"/>
<echo message="${nunit-in-path}"/>
</target>
But this fails every time, so I would like to know couple of things:
string::to-lower(environment::get-variable('PATH'))
actually do?Ok I seem to have got it now, this is how my script looks now:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="Calculator" default="execute" basedir=".">
<property name="InstallationDir" value="C:\BoolCalc" readonly="false"/>
<property name="NUnitLocation" value="${path::combine(directory::get-current-directory(), 'NUnit\bin\net-2.0\nunit-console.exe')}" readonly="false" />
<description>The build scripts for the bool calculator</description>
<target name="clean" description="Remove all previous versions and generated files"><!--This ensures that old files are deleted if they are there and does nothing if they aren't-->
<delete dir="${InstallationDir}" failonerror="false" /><!-- This deletes the directory on your computer for the previous versions, if there are any -->
<delete file="test\Calc.exe" failonerror="false" />
</target>
<target name="build" description="compiles the source code" depends="clean">
<csc target="exe" output="test\Calc.exe" >
<sources>
<include name="src\*.cs" />
</sources>
<references>
<include name="lib\nunit.framework.dll" />
</references>
</csc>
</target>
<target name="testProgram" description="Run unit tests" depends="build">
<exec program="${NUnitLocation}"
workingdir="test\"
commandline="Calc.exe /xml:TestResults.xml /nologo" />
</target>
<target name="install" depends="testProgram">
<echo message="Installing the boolean calculator to ${InstallationDir}"/>
<copy todir="${InstallationDir}" overwrite="true">
<fileset basedir="test\">
<include name="Calc.exe" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
<target name="execute" depends="install">
<echo message="Executing the calculator in ${InstallationDir}"/>
<exec program="${InstallationDir}\Calc.exe" commandline="Calc.exe" />
</target>
</project>
I took the advice and stuffed the Nunit file into workingdir and then create a complete path by using the combine and get-current-directory() to get its exact location.
If you see anything wrong with this script, or something that could be improved please let me know. And thanks to calavera for explaining what I was confused about (didn't know I could do that) and thanks to Tim Robinson and Mark Simpson for the solution.