MSB3073: The command exited with code 3

Question

When i use MSBuild.exe to build this project i am getting the below error. same get build success in VS 2008.

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets(895,9): error MSB3073: The command "..\JS\Minify\ajaxmin.exe -JS -xml ..\JS\Minify\jsinput.xml -CLOBBER" exited with code 3.

Any suggetion to fix this...........

Answer 1

Hi Sara_5,

Did you msbuild default .*proj of your project in MSBuild.exe?

If not, can you list the content of the .*proj you ran?

Is a C++ project you created? If yes, I think this blog is helpful to you:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2010/03/02/visual-studio-2010-c-project-upgrade-guide.aspx

More information we need to help you.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Best regards,

---

Ego [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

Is the below details will help....

Code from *.csproj which i am tring to Build.

-------------------------------------------------------

<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />

<!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it.

Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.Common.targets.

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">

</Target>

<Target Name="AfterBuild">

</Target>

-->

<ProjectExtensions>

<VisualStudio>

<FlavorProperties GUID="{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21}">

<WebProjectProperties>

<UseIIS>False</UseIIS>

<AutoAssignPort>False</AutoAssignPort>

<DevelopmentServerPort>64477</DevelopmentServerPort>

<DevelopmentServerVPath>/</DevelopmentServerVPath>

<IISUrl>

</IISUrl>

<NTLMAuthentication>False</NTLMAuthentication>

<UseCustomServer>False</UseCustomServer>

<CustomServerUrl>

</CustomServerUrl>

<SaveServerSettingsInUserFile>False</SaveServerSettingsInUserFile>

</WebProjectProperties>

</FlavorProperties>

</VisualStudio>

</ProjectExtensions>

<PropertyGroup>

<PreBuildEvent>..\JS\Minify\ajaxmin.exe -JS -xml ..\JS\Minify\jsinput.xml -CLOBBER</PreBuildEvent>

</PropertyGroup>

</Project>

Answer 3

Hi Sara_5,

I think there are something wrong in the PropertyGroup. You can modify your pre-build where you can found it from Properties->Build Events->Pre-Build Event.

Modify it and try again.

Best regards,

---

Ego [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Yes, i updated pre-Build Event as per Below. and it works fine!

$(ProjectDir)\JS\Minify\ajaxmin.exe -JS -xml $(ProjectDir)\JS\Minify\jsinput.xml -CLOBBER

Thanks!

Answer 5

Thanks. You helped me solves a problem.

Answer 6

or post build event:)

---

Nemo Chen