bash - `msbuild` command not found, but `msbuild.exe` works fine

Question

I run MSys/Bash as distributed in Git for Windows. I added the folder C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv4.0.30319 to my path, so I could run msbuild but it doesn't work

$ msbuild
C:Program Files (x86)Gitinsh.exe: msbuild: command not found

Yet msbuild.exe does:

$ msbuild.exe
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 4.0.30319.17929

Yet the command explorer resolves fine. What's going on?

Answer 1

It's a bug in MSys where the same name is shared by a folder and a file (minus the extension). In this case:

• File C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv4.0.30319MSBuild.exe
• Folder C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv4.0.30319MSBuild

You'll have to workaround by writing msbuild.exe