Can't find cloc.exe about cloc-vsts-extension

[dustinwoodhouse]

Thanks @jkanczler, the missing path was the problem. Adding the path fixed it.

[dustinwoodhouse]

The problem appears to be the name of the executable. Has this use case never been tested before? I certainly can't be the first person using this as a VSTS (azure devops) plugin in their build pipeline.

[jkanczler]

It's working in our build pipeline.

This is what you're trying to achieve (arguments input):

--exclude-dir=.gitignore --exclude-ext=.md

The problem with this the --exclude-dir option. The .gitignore is a file. Maybe you wanted to use .git as directory. The path to analyze input is missing too.

Example arguments input for a .NET application:

. --exclude-dir=bin,obj,packages,.vs,.git

As you can see it starts with a '.'. Specifies that we would like to scan the actual folder.
The --exclude-dir option excluding bin, obj, packages, .vs and .git directories.

The pipeline logged the following:

2019-01-16T10:40:17.1370522Z Executing command: cloc.exe . --exclude-dir=bin,obj,packages,.vs,.git --sum-one --md --out cloc.result.md
2019-01-16T10:40:25.2618244Z       50 text files.
2019-01-16T10:40:25.2619113Z classified 50 files
2019-01-16T10:40:25.2619269Z       49 unique files.                              
2019-01-16T10:40:25.2619399Z       26 files ignored.
2019-01-16T10:40:25.2619557Z Wrote cloc.result.md

I suggest to run cloc.exe manually on your machine. Test what arguments are good for you, before configuring the build step.