MonoGame 3.8 MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task breaks my project..

Charles_Humphrey · August 30, 2020, 1:54pm

Hi all, I know I have probably done something daft and missed an installation step, but I have just created a project to test the engine I am writing, and when the template is loaded up, I get a load of odd error messages…

From the off, is shows tha it has not been able to find the MonoGame packages:-

I also get this in my error list window

If I remove the MonoGame.Content.Builder.Taks package, and build it all get’s fixed…

Adding it back in breaks it again…

Anyone know what I am doing wrong here?? Or what I may have missed off in the installation proecss of 3.8? I just went and checked the MonoGame pipeline tool, and discovered it’s still using 3.6, could that be the problem, though I did follow the instructios to install the 3.8 tool too…

[Edit]
Trying to re install the 3.8 MGCG gives me this:

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Martenfur · August 30, 2020, 2:45pm

Your usename has space in it. : )

Charles_Humphrey · August 30, 2020, 2:47pm

WTF!?

Really, that’s the issue?? lol

So, I need to change my username on this machine?

Martenfur · August 30, 2020, 2:48pm

Yep.

Martenfur · August 30, 2020, 2:48pm

Also fun detail – changing your username on Windows leaves User folder with the old name anyway.

Charles_Humphrey · August 30, 2020, 2:49pm

But my user name is tied to my MS account, so…

Martenfur · August 30, 2020, 2:49pm

Imo, logging into Windows with MS account is the last thing you wanna do.

Martenfur · August 30, 2020, 2:50pm

You can also make a hotfix nuget. It’s probably somethinng easy like enclosing paths into quotes.

Charles_Humphrey · August 30, 2020, 2:51pm

Erm, no, it’s not lol

Ill have to wait for a fix on this, I can’t be messing about with my user account… I can work around it for now…

Charles_Humphrey · August 30, 2020, 2:53pm

Thanks for the info though

BlizzCrafter · August 30, 2020, 7:57pm

github.com

MonoGame/MonoGame/blob/687756238f4a660448526c3bf16e3db8bda8e7e2/Tools/MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task/MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task.targets#L157



  Outputs:
    - ExtraContent: built content files
      - ContentDir: the relative path of the embedded folder to contain the content files
-->
<Target Name="RunContentBuilder" DependsOnTargets="PrepareContentBuilder">

  <!-- Execute MGCB from the project directory so we use the correct manifest. -->
  <Exec
    Condition="'%(ContentReference.FullPath)' != ''"
    Command="$(DotnetCommand) $(MGCBPath) $(MonoGameMGCBAdditionalArguments) /@:&quot;%(ContentReference.FullPath)&quot; /platform:$(MonoGamePlatform) /outputDir:&quot;%(ContentReference.ContentOutputDir)&quot; /intermediateDir:&quot;%(ContentReference.ContentIntermediateOutputDir)&quot; /workingDir:&quot;%(ContentReference.FullDir)&quot;"
    WorkingDirectory="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)" />

  <ItemGroup>
    <ExtraContent
      Condition="'%(ContentReference.ContentOutputDir)' != ''"
      Include="%(ContentReference.ContentOutputDir)\**\*.*">
      <ContentDir>%(ContentReference.ContentDir)</ContentDir>
    </ExtraContent>
  </ItemGroup>

The $(MGCBPath) property is the only parameter which is not quoted in the command. You can also see that in your error message.

So quoting this property will likely fixing this bug.

Charles_Humphrey · August 30, 2020, 8:32pm

Sweet, thanks, ill give that a try

Charles_Humphrey · August 30, 2020, 9:17pm

Awesome, that actually worked, shame Ill have to do that each time I add this package

jnoyola · August 31, 2020, 3:26am

This was actually recently fixed in master. Try the dev packages
I wonder if that $(DotnetCommand) should be quoted too…

github.com

MonoGame/MonoGame/blob/develop/Tools/MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task/MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task.targets#L140



  Outputs:
    - ExtraContent: built content files
      - ContentDir: the relative path of the embedded folder to contain the content files
-->
<Target Name="RunContentBuilder" DependsOnTargets="PrepareContentBuilder">

  <!-- Execute MGCB from the project directory so we use the correct manifest. -->
  <Exec
    Condition="'%(ContentReference.FullPath)' != ''"
    Command="$(DotnetCommand) &quot;$(MGCBPath)&quot; $(MonoGameMGCBAdditionalArguments) /@:&quot;%(ContentReference.FullPath)&quot; /platform:$(MonoGamePlatform) /outputDir:&quot;%(ContentReference.ContentOutputDir)&quot; /intermediateDir:&quot;%(ContentReference.ContentIntermediateOutputDir)&quot; /workingDir:&quot;%(ContentReference.FullDir)&quot;"
    WorkingDirectory="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)" />

  <ItemGroup>
    <ExtraContent
      Condition="'%(ContentReference.ContentOutputDir)' != ''"
      Include="%(ContentReference.ContentOutputDir)\**\*.*">
      <ContentDir>%(ContentReference.ContentDir)</ContentDir>
    </ExtraContent>
  </ItemGroup>

Charles_Humphrey · August 31, 2020, 2:06pm

Possibly, but until it’s an issue, ill leave it
Thanks for the heads up on the fix

Ricaidito · September 1, 2020, 9:19pm

I’m getting the same issue, did you find how to solve it?

Charles_Humphrey · September 1, 2020, 9:31pm

Yes @BlizzCrafter post worked

Ricaidito · September 1, 2020, 9:35pm

@Charles_Humphrey I’m new to this and I don’t know what exactly I have to do with that, can you tell me?

Charles_Humphrey · September 1, 2020, 9:37pm

Yea, no worries, let me get on my laptop and I can screen shot what I did

Charles_Humphrey · September 1, 2020, 9:54pm

So, I opened up my solution, and located the offending package.

I then copied that into explorer

Then, in the build folder I found the *.target file, I opened that up in VS and put quotes around the $(MGCBPath) like this

saved the file, and it solved the issue.

Alas, every time yo create a new project, you will have to repeat this again.

Hope this helps