Building TV Plugin (3 Viewers)

[doskabouter]

I think you are making it more complicated than it needs to be.
Cloning the repo and openining the TvLibrary.sln in vs2015/vs2019 compiles just fine here.
And again, you probably don't need to compile the tvservice for you to develop a plugin for it

 

[vapourEyes]

Hi, thanks for checking.

Have you a link to the git address you cloned from ?
I can try the exact same link.

If it fails, I can confirm its my environment and take it from there. Thanks.

I am cloning from here:

GitHub - MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1: Home Theater and Digital Video Recording solution for Windows.

Home Theater and Digital Video Recording solution for Windows. - MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1

github.com

 

[doskabouter]

That is indeed the correct one.
Also tried running the batchfiles and I too got the 'BuildReport\msxsl' is not recognized so at my end it's also a bit different from the build server from Mediaportal. But that hasn't stopped me from developing/debugging plugins

 

[vapourEyes]

I get this same result no matter how much git cloning, resetting branches, adding project references and trying to mess with the assembly references.
Weird that I get this.

I deleted the project folder, then git clone.
Open mediaportal.sln, which fails for assembly references - even on nuget package restore.

Open the .sln file for tvlibrary which built to success.
Open tvplugin and get the assembly reference issues.

 

[doskabouter]

aha, now we're getting somewhere.
I see that indeed it is not 100% correctly configured. the tvplugin debug references the release version of the common stuff.
Best bet is to try build MediaPortal.sln in debug and in release mode and then try to build the tvplugin

 

[vapourEyes]

I think this could be the last problem to resolve.
LastFMLibrary within mediaportal

 

[doskabouter]

should be there... MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1
Small complication: filename is duplicate (with different casing)

 

[vapourEyes]

Hi, thanks for all the help.

I can finally report success with:
MediaPortal.sln build.
TvLibrary.sln
TvPlugin.sln.

Only needed a single line change to TvPlugin after all that.

Its yielded the tvplugin.dll @ v 1.24.0.

Perfect in summary.

 

[vapourEyes]

The solution.
Satisfy the PrePreqs: Compile and Build PrePreq's

Install Visual Studio 2017.
Ensure you only have the team mediaportal assembly library, microsoft offline and nuget.
Install NuGet tools into VS2017.

Last but not least...
Dont bother with 2013, 2015, 2019 in my instance.

 

[vapourEyes]

These appear to help, but I'm not 100% sure.