build-process

I am working on an open source C++ project, for code that compiles on Linux and Windows. I use CMake to build the code on Linux. For ease of development setup and political reasons, I must stick to Visual Studio project files/editor on Windows (I can't switch to Code::Blocks , for example). I see instructions to generate Visual Studio files using CMake, as here . Have you used CMake to generate Visual Studio files before? How has been your experience? Suppose I want to add a new file to my project. What is the workflow for this? Alex CMake is actually pretty good for this. The key part was

I am currently attempting to use Visual Studio 2010 'Publish' and MSDeploy functionality to handle my web deployment needs but have run into a roadblock with regards to customizing the package depending on my build configuration. I develop in a 32bit environment but need to create a release package for a 64bit environment, so in the 'Release' configuration I have a post build event that copies the 64bit version of a third-party dll into the bin directory overwriting the 32bit version. When I use the 'Publish' functionality, even though the correct 64bit dll is being copied to the bin directory

What does another build tool targeted at Java really get me? If you use Gradle over another tool, why? Rich Seller I don't use Gradle in anger myself (just a toy project so far) [author means they have used Gradle on only a toy project so far, not that Gradle is a toy project - see comments] , but I'd say that the reasons one would consider using it would be because of the frustrations of Ant and Maven. In my experience Ant is often write-only (yes I know it is possible to write beautifully modular, elegant build s, but the fact is most people don't). For any non-trivial projects it becomes

Does anyone know how to tell VS(2008) where to save the obj folder when building the solution? We have it save the bin folder to another path in order to keep the source file folders small (ie. emailable), but can't find any way to tell it to do the same with obj... Use the BaseIntermediateOutputPath property in the project file ( .csproj , .vbproj , etc.), as explained at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb629394.aspx . You'll have to manually edit the XML document using a text editor, then reload it in Visual Studio. It may still create the obj folder (that's a known bug), but will

I have this annoying mistake in some of my builds. There is no error in the project, because if I build again, then the problem disappears. The message only appears, when the site is deployed to a Windows 2008 Server. I first thought that it might be an issue with temporary files, but thats not the case. I deployed the build to a different web and the error still appears. The error appears on random actions of the site. Most of the time builds are ok, but each 3rd or 4th build produces runtime errors. I build using a WebdeploymentProject in release mode. Views are precompiled. It's not In ASP

Just wondering if someone could help me with some msbuild scripts that I am trying to write. What I would like to do is copy all the files and sub folders from a folder to another folder using msbuild. {ProjectName} |----->Source |----->Tools |----->Viewer |-----{about 5 sub dirs} What I need to be able to do is copy all the files and sub folders from the tools folder into the debug folder for the application. This is the code that I have so far. <ItemGroup> <Viewer Include="..\$(ApplicationDirectory)\Tools\viewer\**\*.*" /> </ItemGroup> <Target Name="BeforeBuild"> <Copy SourceFiles="@(Viewer)