Gacutil.exe Errors out w/ spaces in filepath
Everytime I use Gacutil.exe and specify a filepath w/ spaces in the name, the utility says it can't find the file specified.
E.G.
COMMAND
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C:\>gacutil /i GacUtilCL.dll /r FILEPATH "C:\Documents and Settings\bmackey\My D
ocuments\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\GacUtilUI\GacUtilCL\bin\Debug\" "GAC Util"RETURNS
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Microsoft (R) .NET Global Assembly Cache Utility. Version 2.0.50727.42
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.SCHEME: <FILEPATH> ID: <C:\Documents and Settings\bmackey\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\GacUtilUI\GacUtilCL\bin\Debug" GAC> DESCRIPTION : <Util>
Failure adding assembly to the cache: The system cannot find the file specified.
Answers
Hi,
Regarding to the gacutil /?
...
Options:
/r <reference_scheme> <reference_id> <description>
Specifies a traced reference to install (/i, /il) or uninstall (/u, /ul).
<reference_scheme> is the type of the reference being added
(UNINSTALL_KEY, FILEPATH or OPAQUE).
<reference_id> is the identifier of the referencing application,
depending on the <reference_scheme>
<description> is a friendly description of the referencing application.
Example: /r FILEPATH c:\projects\myapp.exe "My App"
...So, in your situation I think you have to use following command line:
C:\>gacutil /i GacUtilCL.dll /r FILEPATH "C:\Documents and Settings\bmackey\My D
ocuments\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\GacUtilUI\GacUtilCL\bin\Debug\GacUtilCL.dll" "GAC Util"Why don't you specify whole path right after /i attribute?
- I tried the suggestion regarding full path + filename and it did not work. I was using /i and /r simply because I was going by an example in the help file. We did manage to fix the problem by your second suggestion, which is specifying the path after /i and not using /r. This worked, not sure why /r doesn't do well w/ spaces in file path, but thats simply the way it is.
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Hi,
Regarding to the gacutil /?
...
Options:
/r <reference_scheme> <reference_id> <description>
Specifies a traced reference to install (/i, /il) or uninstall (/u, /ul).
<reference_scheme> is the type of the reference being added
(UNINSTALL_KEY, FILEPATH or OPAQUE).
<reference_id> is the identifier of the referencing application,
depending on the <reference_scheme>
<description> is a friendly description of the referencing application.
Example: /r FILEPATH c:\projects\myapp.exe "My App"
...So, in your situation I think you have to use following command line:
C:\>gacutil /i GacUtilCL.dll /r FILEPATH "C:\Documents and Settings\bmackey\My D
ocuments\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\GacUtilUI\GacUtilCL\bin\Debug\GacUtilCL.dll" "GAC Util"Why don't you specify whole path right after /i attribute?
- I tried the suggestion regarding full path + filename and it did not work. I was using /i and /r simply because I was going by an example in the help file. We did manage to fix the problem by your second suggestion, which is specifying the path after /i and not using /r. This worked, not sure why /r doesn't do well w/ spaces in file path, but thats simply the way it is.
