Resolved- Azure Directory is empty. Nothing will be added to build artifact ‘drop’
Issue Description
Azure ADO build commands give below error,
##[warning]Directory ‘/home/vsts/work/1/a’ is empty. Nothing will be added to build artifact ‘drop’.
Resolution
The error I found to be due to missing artifacts after the build process. Please copy and add artifacts from the build location.
The missing artifacts were visible in the pipeline as it shows ‘0’ artifacts.
I was able to fix the issue using a predefined task for publishing – PublishBuildArtifacts@1 and for CopyFiles@2.
Below sample YAML with changes are highlighted.
trigger:
- master
pool:
vmImage: ubuntu-latest
variables:
buildConfiguration: 'Release'
steps:
- script: dotnet build --configuration $(buildConfiguration)
displayName: 'dotnet build $(buildConfiguration)'
- task: CopyFiles@2
inputs:
targetFolder: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
- task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
displayName: 'Publish Artifact: drop'
inputs:
PathtoPublish: '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)'
In the above command,
- pathToPublish: This is path your artifact. and could be absolute or a relative path.
- artifactName: Name of your artifact.
After modification as above and triggering the build, I was able to publish the artifacts package.
References :
That’s all! Happy coding!
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