MS Visual Studio 16.9.4 - Compile failed after VS update

Audio Plugins
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I just updated my MS Visual Studio to version 16.9.4 and now my vst3 synth plugin won’t successfully compile, even after trying “Rebuild Solution”;

“1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(1480,5): error MSB3025: The source file “x64\Debug\Shared Code\” is actually a directory. The “Copy” task does not support copying directories.
1>Done building project “Mutineer_SharedCode.vcxproj” – FAILED.
2>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Mutineer_VST3, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
2>include_juce_audio_plugin_client_VST3.cpp
2> Creating library C:\JUCE\Mutineer\Builds\VisualStudio2019\x64\Debug\VST3\Mutineer.lib and object C:\JUCE\Mutineer\Builds\VisualStudio2019\x64\Debug\VST3\Mutineer.exp
2>Mutineer_VST3.vcxproj → C:\JUCE\Mutineer\Builds\VisualStudio2019\x64\Debug\VST3\Mutineer.vst3
========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========”

VB2019 sudden error: Copy task does not support copying directories
Error while building plugin tutorial or examples
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Did you downgrade within the IDE or download and install via MS VS website?

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You can’t downgrade with the IDE, that’s an old FR. You could try the LLVM toolchain instead, it’s not affected.

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You can fix it (for now) by going to this folder:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160

and open file “Microsoft.CppCommon.targets”

and comment out lines 1480 - 1482 (using the Html comment approach).

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This issue was recently discussed in another topic.

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Yep. I’ve just got this one also.

Searching for the issue gets into JUCE forum.
so this might also be related / improve web crawl…

anyone tried 16.10 preview?

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The latest Juce develop also has a fix for this

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Ahh thanks. I’ll update our repo :slight_smile:
guess they use this -

for logging purposes -

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i’ve run into this too and have seen the issue posted on the VS forums, specifically regarding JUCE projects. The workaround I was able to find is:

-Go to Project Properties in VS (with your Shared Code selected in the explorer)
-Go to C/C++, then Output Files
-Change “Program Database File Name” to “Inherit from parent or project defaults”

this worked for me

Edit: pretty much same thing described in the post above mine

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Is there any patch for this which is possible from directly inside projucer without updating? None of these solutions will work in CI

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You can cherry pick the fix on your ci

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Just worked for me, thanks!

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Pasting the ‘copy’ command line to a cmd prompt showed me that I didn’t have permission to write to the ‘common files’ folder. Permissions set, it worked for me.

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worked fine for me, cheers!

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Just updating for people stumbling upon this:

My clue was that I was receiving errors in debug mode but not release. Strangely not in other JUCE projects. This solution solved it for me.