I'm trying to automate builds of Visual Studio 6 projects (written in C). Everything works fine when I build them from the Visual Studio Development Environment, but I need some help to be able to compile a project (.dsp) or the whole workspace (.dsw) if possible from the command line with command line tools, as this should be done with a batch job for multiple projects at once.
A tutorial or some instructions on how to do this from scratch would be nice...
msdev FileName [/MAKE "ProjectName – ConfigName | ALL"] [/REBUILD /CLEAN /NORECURSE /OUT LogFile /USEENV]
where FileName is the name of your project (.dsp) or workspace (.dsw) file.
For example, the following syntax deletes all intermediate files and then builds a project called MyProject:
msdev MyProject.dsp /MAKE "MyProject – Win32 Debug" /REBUILD
Taken from MSDN
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Your command line needs to look something like this:
msdev myworkspace.dsw /MAKE "myproject - Win32 Release" /OUT buildlog.txt
You'll also need to put the development enironment on your PATH - if it isn't already there, you need to run c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\vcvars32.bat or similar.
Here are some resources.
Building a project from the command line.
Working at the Visual Studio command line.
And here is a forum conversation about using the command line.
