在Powershell中使用nuget外部工具

Question

Some nuget packages add external tools eg. OpenCover installs its executables in $env:USERPROFILE\\.nuget\\packages\\opencover\\<version>\\tools . These can be executed from the PackageManager console in Visual Studio. eg.

PM> OpenCover.Console.exe

But I'm having no luck getting the command running outside PackageManager (specifically, I'm trying to run OpenCover.Console.exe in a PowerShell build script).

According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/tools/package-manager-console#setting-up-a-nuget-powershell-profile these tools are available to a Powershell nuget profile. But I can't seem to find a way to specify a profile file to use in a Powershell session ( Powershell doesn't take a profile file arg and sourcing the profile file in a session throws an error).

Any suggestions how to run these nuget tools outside of PackageManager?

Answer 1

Not sure how OpenCover works, but nuget is not part of the normal msbuild toolchain; its executed separately. Most builds I've worked with, the nuget restore step is separate, executed before the msbuild step.

Also, nuget is not "installed" in your OS, nor should you rely on it being available on a machine - it's just a standalone tool. You have to download, extract and add it to your path, or execute it directly - something like this (powershell):

$args = @("restore", "D:\path\to\my\build.sln")
& "D:\path\to\nuget.exe" $args