Looks like your "ProjectDir" does not exist, or the value is not assigned.

The Getting started guide stored the addin to the "SolutionDir" and the forum topic poster changed it.

Make sure your project directory is defined before building the addin.

Igor_Coraine_Cassioli

Hi.

I am starting on AddIn development and I tried to follow the TIA Add-Ins Getting Started guide, however when I get to the step "3.5 Creating the .addin file" and I try to build the solution it returns an error that the publisher.exe exited with error 123.
I found this forum topic Auto addin copy while developing - 243616 - Industry Support Siemens where the author changed the post build event a little bit and doing his way I still get the exit 1 of his event, but at least the addin file is created.
Anyone knows to explain me how exactly this post event works, what the letters means and maybe the reason of the error.

This is the code given in the Getting Started guide:
"C:\ProgramFiles\Siemens\Automation\PortalV17\PublicAPI\V17.AddIn\Siemens.Engineering.AddIn.P ublisher.exe" -f "$(SolutionDir)$(ProjectName)\Config.xml" -v -c

This is the code given in the other forum topic:
del "$(ProjectDir)$(OutputPath)*.addin"
"C:\Program Files\Siemens\Automation\Portal V16\PublicAPI\V17.AddIn\Siemens.Engineering.AddIn.Publisher.exe" -f "$(ProjectDir)$(OutputPath)Config.xml" -l "PostBuildLog.txt"
if not exist "$(ProjectDir)$(OutputPath)*.addin" exit 1
copy "$(ProjectDir)$(OutputPath)*.addin" "C:\Program Files\Siemens\Automation\Portal V17\AddIns" /Y

Thanks in advance