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Posted by Simon Sporrong
Simon Sporrong
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Gulp task 'default' won't run and zip file is 6 mb.

I think that this code challene is quite exhausting and irritating. I can't make the default gulp task to run because i use Visual Studio 2019 which somehow makes the gulp-msbuild package unable to find the msbuild file. I tried to alter the source code for the package but can't make it work.

So at least I can zip the solution and upload it manually, right? But even after i remove the 'packages' file from the src folder the zip file is too big, 6 mb.

This is so annoying since there is no way to complete this otherwise, if i'm honest, quite trivial code challenge.

The complete output message from the gulp file execution:

PM> gulp default
[[90m23:06:23[39m] Using gulpfile ~\Downloads\lcc-dotnet-aspnet-web-api-s2cc1\src\IssueTracker\gulpfile.js
[[90m23:06:23[39m] Starting 'nuget-restore'...
[[90m23:06:25[39m] MSBuild auto-detection: using msbuild version '16.1.76.45076' from 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\bin'.
All packages listed in packages.config are already installed.

[[90m23:06:25[39m] Finished 'nuget-restore' after 1.63 s
[[90m23:06:25[39m] Starting 'default'...
[[90m23:06:25[39m] { Error: spawn C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\amd64\MSBuild.exe ENOENT
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:190:19)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:362:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)
  errno: 'ENOENT',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\MSBuild\\15.0\\Bin\\amd64\\MSBuild.exe',
  path: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\MSBuild\\15.0\\Bin\\amd64\\MSBuild.exe',
  spawnargs: 
   [ 'C:\\Users\\KM\\Downloads\\lcc-dotnet-aspnet-web-api-s2cc1\\project.msbuild',
     '/target:Start',
     '/verbosity:minimal',
     '/toolsversion:15.0',
     '/nologo',
     '/maxcpucount',
     '/property:Configuration=Release' ] }
[[90m23:06:25[39m] MSBuild failed!
[[90m23:06:25[39m] Finished 'default' after 58 ms

Any suggestions James Churchill ?