Why is my gacutil.exe missing?
“c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command”
Note: if you are running Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 then you have the Gacutil.exe already. Se this post.
I have several times looked for the gacutil.exe file when I needed to make a batch script to copy a DLL file to the windows assembly folder (GAC, C:\Windows\Assembly)
This GAC is a bit special so you can’t just xcopy the dll file to it, you have to use for instance the gacutil.
The gacutil is a part of the .NET 2.0 Framework SDK.
When the SDK is installed you will have the gacutil at the following path:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil.exe
You can not enjoy easy copy to GAC using a script such as this:
@SET GACUTIL=”c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil.exe”
Echo Installing mydll in GAC
%GACUTIL% -if bin\debug\mydllL.dll
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