I don't build VS 6 projects in NAnt at all. I build them via command line (msdev.exe). Note that issues you run into involve environment variables such as the %PATH%, %INCLUDE%, %LIB%, %VCINSTALLDIR%, MSVCDir, MSDevDir, any Framework* environment variables, etc.
There should be batch files that set up your environment variables for VS 6, VS2003, and VS2005. What I do is grab a copy of the original values for PATH, LIB, and INCLUDE. Then when I'm ready to build a VS 6 project, I call that batch file, do the build, then re-set all the environment variables back to it's original version. Then, once the build is done, the batch file re-sets the environment variables back to their original values. If you don't do that, eventually your PATH/LIB/INCLUDE gets too big and messy and starts to behave weirdly.
Currently I only build VS2003 projects/solutions via NAnt, and do msdev for VS 6, and devenv's for 2005 projects (I have a product that has code in all three VisualStudio versions and in VB, VC++, and C#).
Marc Towersap
Sr. SCM Engineer
There should be batch files that set up your environment variables for VS 6, VS2003, and VS2005. What I do is grab a copy of the original values for PATH, LIB, and INCLUDE. Then when I'm ready to build a VS 6 project, I call that batch file, do the build, then re-set all the environment variables back to it's original version. Then, once the build is done, the batch file re-sets the environment variables back to their original values. If you don't do that, eventually your PATH/LIB/INCLUDE gets too big and messy and starts to behave weirdly.
Currently I only build VS2003 projects/solutions via NAnt, and do msdev for VS 6, and devenv's for 2005 projects (I have a product that has code in all three VisualStudio versions and in VB, VC++, and C#).
Sr. SCM Engineer
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From: "Foster, Richard - PAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Darren Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:08:44 AM
Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] Compiling VC++ 6 Project
Darren,
Since you're using Visual Studio 6, you'll probably need to
go the <exec> route (unless there is a legacy C++ task available in
nantcontrib - I haven't looked). I suggest getting the build working from the
command line before trying to automate it using NAnt.
A quick look at the help documentation for VS6 suggests you
should probably be calling msdev, not devenv.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Richard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Gage
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 18:28
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Subject: [NAnt-users] Compiling VC++ 6 Project
Hi,
Can anyone tell me the easiest way to compile a VC++ 6.0 Project.
I.e. using Visual Studio project file, StructuredPrototype1.dsp
I've tried:
1 - using devenv. But this gives me message dialog stating "Projects generated by a previous version of Visual C++ and cannot be loaded or converted by Visual Studio 6.0", even though the project can be opened and compiled using Visual Studio 6.0.
2- Using either MSBUILD or VCBuild I get "error MSB4025: The project file could not be loaded. Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.".
3 - Compiling using the <cl> task fails because the compile order is not maintained.
thanks
Darren
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