Team city unmet requirement: MSBuildTools12.0_x86_Path exists

I have a TeamCity install on x32 Server2008 windows machine. I've run the .net 4.5 web install. I've also copied over the files from my x64 machine based on this article so that I didn't need to install vs2012 (though, I did have the change the path to remove x86 on the 32bit machine):

MSBuild in TeamCity of Visual Studio 2012 solution

I can't seem to get the local agent to run the build that I've setup for msbuild on a vs2012 or vs2010 project. I keep getting:

Unmet requirements: MSBuildTools12.0_x86_Path exists

I've restarted the server multiple times, and restarted the agent as well. I've tried messing with the path variables a little, but can't figure out what I'm missing. I've looked as well in the Configuration Parameters, and can see these:

MSBuildTools2.0_x86_Path C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

MSBuildTools3.5_x86_Path C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5

MSBuildTools4.0_x86_Path C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319

How do I get 12.0 in there?

Solution 1:

I needed to install MSBuild separately, then after restarting the agent the variable was there.

(From MSDN article) MSBuild is now installed as part of Visual Studio rather than as part of the .NET Framework. The current MSBuild version number is 12.0. If you want to install MSBuild separately, download the installation package from MSBuild Download.

edit: the answer link was broken. Here is the link for Microsoft Build Tools 2015 (most recently until today): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48159

Solution 2:

A bit of a late answer, but if your project is from VS 2012, and you're using the autodetected solution file build step, editing that step and choosing "Microsoft Visual Studio 2012" from the "Visual Studio" drop down fixes this issue as well (and, IMHO, more correctly).

Solution 3:

I had the same problem and at the end it turned out that my defined build step to run MSBuild was configured wrong.

In my MSBuild build step the setting "MSBuild ToolsVersion" was set to 12.0 (default), which lead to the error "Unmet requirements: MSBuildTools12.0_x86_Path exists" on my system. Because I don't need the new MSBuild 12.0 to run my build, I changed this setting to 4.0 in my build step. This MSBuild version is correctly installed on my system. This solved the issue for me.