diff --git a/Kyoo/Kyoo.csproj b/Kyoo/Kyoo.csproj
index 380d440b..b564772d 100644
--- a/Kyoo/Kyoo.csproj
+++ b/Kyoo/Kyoo.csproj
@@ -54,8 +54,16 @@
 	</ItemGroup>
 
 	<Target Name="BuildTranscoder" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild" Condition="'$(SkipTranscoder)' != 'true' And !Exists('$(TranscoderRoot)/build/$(TranscoderBinary)')">
-		<Exec WorkingDirectory="$(TranscoderRoot)" Condition="'$(IsWindows)' != 'true'" Command="mkdir -p build %26%26 cd build %26%26 cmake .. %26%26 make -j" />
-		<Exec WorkingDirectory="$(TranscoderRoot)" Condition="'$(IsWindows)' == 'true'" Command="(if not exist build mkdir build) %26%26 cd build %26%26 cmake .. -G &quot;NMake Makefiles&quot; %26%26 nmake" />
+		<Exec WorkingDirectory="$(TranscoderRoot)" Condition="'$(IsWindows)' != 'true'" Command="mkdir -p build %26%26 cd build %26%26 cmake .. %26%26 make -j" ContinueOnError="true">
+			<Output TaskParameter="ExitCode" PropertyName="ErrorCode" />
+		</Exec>
+		<Exec WorkingDirectory="$(TranscoderRoot)" Condition="'$(IsWindows)' == 'true'" Command="(if not exist build mkdir build) %26%26 cd build %26%26 cmake .. -G &quot;NMake Makefiles&quot; %26%26 nmake" ContinueOnError="true">
+			<Output TaskParameter="ExitCode" PropertyName="ErrorCode" />
+		</Exec>
+		<Error Condition="'$(ErrorCode)' != '0'" Text="An environement capable of building the transcoder was not found. Appropriate tools are not installed, not available in the $PATH or not correctly configured. To fix this you can ether:
+ - Fix your tools
+ - Skip the transcoder via the '-p:SkipTranscoder=true'
+ - Download an already built transcoder and put it in ./Kyoo.Transcoder/build" />
 	</Target>
 	
 	<ItemGroup Condition="'$(SkipTranscoder)' != 'true'">