Running Code Analysis (FxCop > 10) on build agent without installing Visual Studio

Solution 1:

For FxCop 14.0 / VS2015 see this answer

Run FxCop 12.0 without installing Visual Studio 2013

Okay, i've invested 6 hours and now it's working. I've added all necessary executables, dlls and msbuild targets to source control.

These are the files that i had to add to source control: (Please consider that this might violate some license agreements)

(source control)\dev\tools\FxCop
│
├[amd64]
│   │
│   └msdia120.dll
├[Engines]
│   │
│   ├IntrospectionAnalysisEngine.dll
│   └PhoenixAnalysisEngine.dll
├[Msbuild]
│   │
│   ├fxcoptask.dll
│   ├Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Targets
│   ├Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.dll
│   └Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.Sdk.dll
├[Repository]
│   │
│   ├[Compatibility]
│   │   │
│   │   ├Desktop2.0.xml
│   │   ├Desktop2.0SP1.xml
│   │   ├Desktop2.0SP2.xml
│   │   ├Desktop3.0.xml
│   │   ├Desktop3.0SP1.xml
│   │   ├Desktop3.0SP2.xml
│   │   ├Desktop3.5.xml
│   │   └Desktop3.5SP1.xml
│   └system32.bin
├[Rules]
│   │
│   ├DataflowRules.dll
│   ├DesignRules.dll
│   ├GlobalizationRules.dll
│   ├InteroperabilityRules.dll
│   ├MaintainabilityRules.dll
│   ├MobilityRules.dll
│   ├NamingRules.dll
│   ├PerformanceRules.dll
│   ├PortabilityRules.dll
│   ├ReliabilityRules.dll
│   ├SecurityRules.dll
│   ├SecurityTransparencyRules.dll
│   └UsageRules.dll
├[Xml]
│   │
│   ├CodeAnalysisReport.xsl
│   ├FxCopReport.xsl
│   └VSConsoleOutput.xsl
├Architecture-msil.dll
├CodeAnalysis.dll
├CustomDictionary.xml
├FxCopCmd.exe
├FxCopCmd.exe.config
├FxCopCommon.dll
├FxCopSdk.dll
├Microsoft.Cci.dll
├Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.Common.dll
├Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.DataflowModels.dll
├Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.dll
├Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.Interop.dll
├Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.Phoenix.dll
├Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.Phoenix.xml
├msdia120.dll
├mssp7en.dll
├mssp7en.lex
├phx.dll
└Runtime-vccrt-win-msil.dll

Copy them as follows:

entire FxCop installation folder contents from

%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\FxCop
from Visual Studio 2013 C++ redist, or any other place: (also see legal information) copy msdia120 x86 and x64 to:

msdia120.dll (874 KiB)

amd64\msdia120.dll (1.07 MiB)
from the Global Assembly Cache (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\_NameOfTheAssembly_\) of a computer where VS2013 is installed, copy the following DLLs to: (Make sure the DLLs are version 12.0 !)

Msbuild\Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.dll

Msbuild\Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.Sdk.dll
All files from %programfiles(x86)%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\CodeAnalysis to

Msbuild\fxcoptask.dll

Msbuild\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Targets

(Furthermore you need the appropriate Windows (7.1 / 8.1) SDK for building the .net 4.0 / 4.5 application installed on the build agent)

Additionally we had to adjust the project msbuild file as follows:

<!--Must import code analysis target before importing csharp targets, so that the correct code analysis targets gets imported. -->
<Import Project="$(ProjectBuildScriptDir)Custom.CodeAnalysis.targets"/>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets"/>

And this is what our Custom.CodeAnalysis.targets contains:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <!-- Code analysis settings. -->
    <CodeAnalysisCulture>en-US</CodeAnalysisCulture>

    <!-- change this so it points to your ruleset or remove it entirely -->
    <CodeAnalysisRuleSet>$(SourcesDir)Custom.ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>

    <!-- this must refer to the source control directory where you copied FxCopCommand.exe (and the rest of the FxCop files and directories...) to -->
    <CodeAnalysisPath>$(ToolsDir)FxCop\</CodeAnalysisPath>

    <!-- this must refer to the source control directory where you copied fxcoptask.dll, Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Targets, Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeaAnalysis.dll and Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeaAnalysis.Sdk.dll to -->
    <CodeAnalysisTargets>$(CodeAnalysisPath)Msbuild\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Targets</CodeAnalysisTargets>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <!-- configure this according to your wishes -->

  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Release'">
    <CodeAnalysisTreatWarningsAsErrors>false</CodeAnalysisTreatWarningsAsErrors>
    <RunCodeAnalysis>true</RunCodeAnalysis>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <!-- Report code analysis results to TeamCity -->
  <Target Name="ReportCodeAnalysisResults" AfterTargets="RunCodeAnalysis" Condition="'$(RunCodeAnalysis)' == 'true' And '$(IsRunningOnTeamCity)' == 'true'">
    <Message Text="##teamcity[importData type='FxCop' path='$(CodeAnalysisLogFile)']" Importance="High" />
  </Target>

</Project>

Solution 2:

!! For FxCop 12.0 / VS2013 see this answer !!

Run FxCop 14.0 without installing Visual Studio 2015

Prerequisites:

MSBuild 14.0 --> Install Microsoft Build Tools 2015
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x86 (the x86 version is always required, depending on the build x64 redist may be required as well. If it is missing the error message can be cryptic, for example System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeAnalysis.Interop.dll' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found.). Instead of installing the entire redist you could also copy the necessary DLLs separately, but at this point i don't know which are needed. It's quite tricky and time consuming to find out which ones are exactly missing.

Depending on what you want to build:

appropriate Windows SDK, for example Windows 10 SDK
appropriate .net SDK / targets (.NET Framework 4.6 SDK is included in Windows 10 SDK)

Files to Add to Source Control