command line - PowerShell - Start-Process and Cmdline Switches

Question

I can run this fine:

$msbuild = "C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv3.5MSBuild.exe" 
start-process $msbuild -wait

But when I run this code (below) I get an error:

$msbuild = "C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv3.5MSBuild.exe /v:q /nologo" 
start-process $msbuild -wait

Is there a way I can pass parameters to MSBuild using start-process? I'm open to not using start-process, the only reason I used it was I needed to have the "command" as a variable.

When I have
C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv3.5MSBuild.exe /v:q /nologo
on a line by itself, how does that get handled in Powershell?

Should I be using some kind of eval() kind of function instead?

Answer 1

you are going to want to separate your arguments into separate parameter

$msbuild = "C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv3.5MSBuild.exe"
$arguments = "/v:q /nologo"
start-process $msbuild $arguments