How do I set a property to the output of a command in msbuild/xbuild?

You can't do that using exec because the Exec task cannot gather output from the tool or command that it runs You'll have to write a custom msbuild task that calls pkg-config and gather this output in a property.

You can't do that using exec because the Exec task cannot gather output from the tool or command that it runs. You'll have to write a custom msbuild task that calls pkg-config and gather this output in a property.

That's what I feared. Thanks – Nils Apr 21 '10 at 8:45.

I had some Ideas on how to achieve this. I created an xbuild/msbuild custom task to simply execute a given command and make the output usable. The results can be viewed here.

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