Post build event exit code 1 error

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I have the script for post build event.

copy /y "$(SolutionDir)Libs\MotionDetect.dll" "$(SolutionDir)$(ConfigurationName)"
call editbin.exe /LARGEADDRESSAWARE SER.EXE > recpost.txt
call dumpbin.exe /HEADERS SER.EXE > recpost1.txt

I don't know what is wrong.

But I get

exited with code 1

What I have tried:

maybe add quote but not sure if to add quote around "editbin.exe"

Posted 7-Sep-17 4:54am

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Updated 15-Jan-20 1:51am

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Sep-17 11:50am

The log from the build event should be in one of the project directories, and also shown in the output window during the build.

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Solution 2

I had a similar issue.
My solution was to add a

MKDIR "$(SolutionDir)$(ConfigurationName)"

before the copy.

Posted 21-May-19 4:51am

CLN77

Updated 21-May-19 4:52am

v2

Solution 3

1. All codes smaller 8 are successcodes
2. Code 1 means "Successfully copied"
3. for some reason my visual studio alway threw "Code 1" as an exception which is bullshit
4. i had to fix it by simply adding the following line in the end:
exit 0

Hope i could help.
@Microsoft... if you read this... why though?! why use successcodes if you just treat 'em as errors?!

Posted 15-Jan-20 1:51am

Quellkot

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Richard MacCutchan 15-Jan-20 8:16am

This is not correct, an exit code of 1 is produced when a copy fails. When it succeeds the exit code is 0.

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-08T03:03:00

Probably one of the executed commands returns with a non-zero code.

Unfortunately there is no documentation for the return codes of the VS tools but you can check them using the VS console or by printing them out in the build step:

copy /y "$(SolutionDir)Libs\MotionDetect.dll" "$(SolutionDir)$(ConfigurationName)"
echo %ERRORLEVEL%
call editbin.exe /LARGEADDRESSAWARE SER.EXE > recpost.txt
echo %ERRORLEVEL%
call dumpbin.exe /HEADERS SER.EXE > recpost1.txt
echo %ERRORLEVEL%

If you want to ignore errors, just reset the errorlevel after the command:

SET ERRORLEVEL=0