I am creating an MSI file by building using devenv command. I don't want to install visual studio. Is there an alternative to it?
Visual Studio is paid and I don't want to buy it.
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I can't use MSBuild because I have .vdproj file which can't be build using MSBuild. So I use devenv.
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While I am building own Visual Studio Extension in TeamCity (same applies to any CI server build that supports building VS solutions), my build stucks on the step DeployVsixExtensionFiles. As far as I understand, the target is defined in VS Extensibility files and is being imported into any .csproj by default. I also realize that this is an "aka test" step that tries to embed an extension into a virtual copy of VS via running a command:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /RootSuffix Exp /ResetSettings General.vssettings /Embedding /Command File.Exit
I have two questions:
1. Should I disable this step for Release build of Extension?
2. If yes, how can this be done.
The VS SDK installs the extension as a part of a build so you can F5 and run it. If you're CI system doesn't care about that, update your CI configuration to pass /p:DeployExtension=false to MSBuild.
We have both Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 installed on our machine. Often we want to run it with the devenv command. To be clear, we want to open Visual Studio. How do we pass the version number to run? The devenv command line documentation doesn't say how.
I have setup a new server machine. I setup windows sdk, .net framework sdk, and checkout my visual studio from svn. I would like to build my application using msbuild but it keeps asking me where the "windowsx.h" file is. I do not want to setup any visual studio ide. How can I make msbuild see windows sdk include folder using console?
With a normal install of Visual Studio you get a shortcut to a Visual Studio prompt. This sets all environment variables so you can use the compiler (and other tools) from the command line. First you can try to run msbuild from such a prompt. If that works add the necessary folders to the msbuild settings.
Is there any powershell script exist to build visual studio project without open visual studio?
You don't even need power shell or visual studio. Just use the msbuild program installed with .Net. Usage example is like this:
msbuild DBMigration.csproj /p:Configuration=Debug
msbuild is located at C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5 (or select your version)
There is also a powershell build system, https://github.com/JamesKovacs/psake
I got vcproj file from QMake (qmake -tp vc win32.pro), and when I run it with msbuild (msbuild for VS 2010), I get the following error.
MSBUILD : error MSB4192: The project file ".\win32.vcproj" is in the ".vcproj" or ".dsp" file format
, which MSBuild cannot build directly. Please convert the project by opening it in the Visual Studio
IDE or running the conversion tool, or, for ".vcproj", use MSBuild to build the solution file conta
ining the project instead.
I'd like to run the conversion tool for getting VS2010 project file. What's the tool for it?
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Based on heavyd's answer, I got it work.
qmake -project
qmake -tp vc win32.pro
devenv /Upgrade win32.vcproj
msbuild win32.vcxproj
One can use nmake, which is simpler.
qmake -spec win32-msvc2008
nmake
The conversion tools is built into the Visual Studio IDE. You can run it by opening a Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt (Start->Microsoft Visual Studio 2010->Visual Studio Tools) and typing:
devenv /Upgrade example.vcproj
Where example.vcproj is your VS 2005/2008 Visual C++ project file. This should upgrade you project to VS 2010 so it can be built directly with MSBuild.