On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 15:21:34 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 14:54:53 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Do you mean build from the command line? I did that at my
previous job where we were using cmake and had made the
directory structure very neat, and all of the VS stuff was
separate from the actual code, since we didn't build in the
source directories, but at my current job, everything was set
up with VS by folks who use VS for everything, and the
directory structure is a complete mess, making doing stuff
from the command line a lot messier than it should be.
Doesn't msbuild build it? We have our projects set up with VS
too, and it's built by msbuild just fine in a single command.
In fact one of our developers builds the solution from command
line too and he uses CLI TFS cilent.
I've actually encountered some heavily configured Visual Studio
projects that could be build from Visual Studio but not from
MSBuild. Never got to dig deep enough to figure out why - I
suspect it has something to do with the solution arrangement in
one of them, and with VS plugins in another. Should be avoidable
if one of the devs works with MSBuild from the start - but that
was clearly not the case here.
At any rate, I still managed to create the illusion of building
them from the command line by keeping a open instance of Visual
Studio in the background and using devenv to make it compile them
when I needed to. But this method will probably not work well if
you want to automate these builds on a server...
