Re: QUERY: Automated CVS-VC6 building

From:
Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.ide_general,microsoft.public.vc.language,microsoft.public.vc.project_mgt,microsoft.public.vstudio.development,microsoft.public.vstudio.general
Date:
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:32:23 +0100
Message-ID:
<pvec96-81s.ln1@satorlaser.homedns.org>
And Wan wrote:

1. Sync to a specific changelist (collection of versions) in Perforce


Any VCS worth its money has a commandline client, put the according commands
into a batch file.

2. Use MS VC6 to batch build (consists of multiple projs of dlls/exes) and
might need rebuild/relink due to dependencies.


You can actually invoke the IDE from a batch file in order to build a
project or workspace, like

  msdev.exe foo.dsp /make Debug

3. Once 100% built (rebuild doesn't do any further linking) then copy
files to folder with same name as the changelist #.


Use 'cp'.

4. Repeat from step 1 onto the next changelist.


Requires some more batch-file writing. Note that if you don't like/want
batchfiles, you can also use any other programming language, but using
batch files is just as convenient as using shell scripts on POSIX
platforms, because the interpreter is already there.

Uli

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