I'm developing a project using Monodevelop
4 in Windows XP and I need to copy some of the .dll
library files into some folder after they are built. These libraries are plugins to a main project and so the main project is not depended on them and they need to be copied manually.
But as we are using computers nothing needs to actually be done manually, and so I turned to Monodevelop's Custom Commands
in project settings. There I can type in any command I like (supposedly).
So here's what I did; First I added a command to make sure the destination folder exists:
mkdir "${SolutionDir}\MainProj\bin\${ProjectConfigName}\Plugins"
And then copied the library:
xcopy "${TargetFile}" "${SolutionDir}\MainProj\bin\${ProjectConfigName}\Plugins" /Y
But the thing is that the first command fails and so the second one never executes. To see the results of the first command I checked both of checkboxes named Run on external console
and Pause console ouput
and here's its output:
'"mkdir"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Press any key to continue . . .
In IDE's output panel I can read mkdir "C:\Some\Path\MainProj\bin\Debug\Plugins"
which is correct and when I paste it into a console creates the folder successfully so I have no idea why Monodevelop is unable to execute it!
Does anyone have any comment on this problem?