Team Build and 260+ Character Paths

re: Team Build and 260+ Character Paths

Rosyna — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:51:15 GMT

What about that hack to allow for 32k characters? Is that not applicable in this case?

"The Unicode versions of several functions permit a maximum path length of approximately 32,000 characters composed of components up to 255 characters in length. To specify that kind of path, use the "\\?\" prefix."

re: Team Build and 260+ Character Paths

aaronhallberg — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:28:37 GMT

Nope - there's no way I know of to get that to work here. Build involves too many individual tools (Team Build, MSBuild, csc.exe, vcbuild.exe, aspnet_compiler.exe, etc.) that all pay attention to the 260 character limit - at some point, something is guaranteed to "barf" (that's a technical term) on the path and fail the build.

The important bit in the quote you mentioned is the word "several". Many versions of functions do not permit a maximum path greater than 260, including the .NET APIs, which are used extensively by Team Build, MSBuild, etc. See http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2007/02/13/long-paths-in-net-part-1-of-3-kim-hamilton.aspx for more information here.

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I finally ran into this today--my build wouldn't execute because my path name was longer that 259 characters.

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re: Team Build and 260+ Character Paths

Mick.Lang — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:52:40 GMT

I've seen numerous people saying the limitation is less than 260 characters with the limit varying from person to person. I think I know why:-

I've run into this problem in my build. I was getting CS0006 on assemblies referenced by a couple of projects, when several other projects were compiliing successfully referencing the same assembly.

The absolute paths of both the project and a (file typed) referenced assembly were a lot less than 260 characters i.e the referenced assembly absolute path was about 140 and the projects path was 160.

However when you took the relative path of the referenced assembly from a project directory...

..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Lib\Compact Framework\Windows Dynamic Mobile Framework\Microsoft.Dynamics.Mobile.Framework.Controls.dll

and concatenated that on to the absolute path of the project directory referencing the file, if the end result was greater than 260 characters then that project would fail to build with a CS0006 error.

This means the limitation is about twice as constricting as what you've described here. It would be OK if the limit was just the absolute path to assemblies. However when this limit is applied to the combined length of the project and the relative path to a referenced assembly then this limitation is quite constricting.

I think you guys really need to look at this and fix it.

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