I've been a professional web developer for about five years now, and have compiled many many things for servers. I've also written many simple C programs (one or two files). The main thing which has held me back from creating more complex applications is the fear of leraning to the GNU build tools. The documentation is huge and a bit in...
I'm working in a team environment where each developer works from their local desktop and deploys to a virtual machine that they own on the network. What I'm trying to do is set up the Visual Studio solution so that when they build the solution each projects deployment is handled in the post-build event to that developers virtual machin...
I want to load a different properties file based upon one variable. Basically, if doing a dev build use this properties file, if doing a test build use this other properties file, and if doing a production build use yet a third properties file. ...
In our development environment each developer has their own dev server. Often times they do not actually develop on that server but develop from their local machine, deploy to their dev server, and then attach with the remote debugger to do debugging. My question is; how can I use MSBuild to execute a different set of tasks for each us...
I've already got a NAnt build script that builds/runs tests/zips web project together, etc. but I'm working on a basic desktop application. How would I go about build the setup project using NAnt so I can include it with the build report on TeamCity. Edit: The setup is the basic Setup Project supplied with Visual Studio. It's for inte...
Nant seems very compiler-centric - which is guess is because it's considered a .NET development system. But I know it can be done! I've seen it. The platform we're building on has its own compiler and doesn't use 'cl.exe' for c++. We're building a C++ app on a different platform and would like to override with our own compiler. Can anyo...
I have updated my ant build.xml file to include a new file and a new folder. After creating the .jar I check if they exist in the jar by 'unzip\extract', and they are there. But when executing the .jar neither the folder or the file gets extracted. Am I missing a step? ...
I'm looking for a website that can help me find the best new hardware options to build a new computer. I'm looking for reviews and features. Edit: Thanks for all the good advice. I went with ars technica for most of the hardware advice, it lead me to NewEgg products. I'm looking for a good idea for a fairly cheap custom case for the ...
I recently started using Rake to build some of my (non-ruby) packages. Rake is nice, but what I found missing is a way to do hierarchical builds (aggregate Rakefiles in subdirectories). Since this is a common feature in most other build tools, I'm wondering if someone more familiar with Rake has a good solution. ...
The "ResolveManifestFiles" task failed unexpectedly. System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path. at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.HasIllegalCharacters(String[] str) at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess access, AccessControlActions control, String[] pathListOrig,...
Hi, I'm trying to install faac and am running into errors. Here are the errors I get when trying to build it: [root@test faac]# ./bootstrap configure.in:11: warning: underquoted definition of MY_DEFINE run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal aclocal:config...
There are so many different systems out there, what do you prefer? Using a system that is written in the same language like your own software? I started with the famous Autotools-Collection once. Some years later I found and tried SCons and was amazed. It's so clean and easy in comparison to Autotools-stuff - but to have Python as a dep...
Hi all, 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 dir...
How to get an assembler file to be compiled and linked into a driver build. To clarify a bit The SOURCES file : TARGETTYPE=DRIVER DRIVERTYPE=WDM TARGETPATH=obj TARGETNAME=bla INCLUDES=$(DDK_INC_PATH) TARGETLIBS=$(DDK_LIB_PATH)\ks.lib SOURCES=x.cpp y.cpp z.asm The problem occurs with the z.asm file. NMAKE complains that it does no...
This I think is related to my use of the nlog C++ API (and my question on the nlog forum is here); the purpose of my asking this question here is to get a wider audience to my problem and perhaps to also get some more general ideas behind the VB6 IDE's failure to build in my particular scenario. Briefly, the problem that I am having is ...
When I use the task, the property is only set to TRUE if the resource (say file) is available. If not, the property is undefined. When I print the value of the property, it gives true if the resource was available, but otherwise just prints the property name. Is there a way to set the property to some value if the resource is not avai...
I am looking for all addresses related to: 3.x eclipse itself (milestones and/or integration builds) 3.x other components (GEF, GMF, EMF, ...) In the spirit of answering my own question, I do have an answer for: 3.5 eclipse itself, with some details and caveats, 3.6 Helios, with the steps involved to follow the updates. However, ...
Is there a NAnt task that will echo out all property names and values that are currently set during a build? Something equivalent to ant's echoproperties task maybe. ...
I have been used to working with VS2005 and 2008 - using msbuild, etc, but I have inherited a set of projects that have to remain in vc6.0 for now. I don't like opening each project in the developer studio and building. I prefer to build form command line (I am automating the builds). Is this possible? I have tried the nmake utility,...
Where I work I have several projects in separate repositories. Each project shares a lot of common code that I want to pull out into a distinct project. I'm thinking of calling the project with the following scheme: Company.Department.Common or Company.Department.Utility. I've constructed a project for this and it has an automated build...