I have some projects which I wrote in C++ and compile with Visual Studio 2005. I'm using SVN for source control. Could you recommend an auto-build system to compile my code?
Cruisecontrol or Cruisecontrol.net are both good for this kind of task. You can use them either alone or in partnership with a build (not autobuild) tool e.g. ant or nant.
(They are both free).
Don't be put off by their java or .net basis, either will happily allow you to build visual studio c++ from svn.
see
http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/
http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET
FinalBuilder is second to none, check it: http://www.finalbuilder.com/
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Does anyone know where the Visual Studio 2010 (Service Pack 1 to be specific) build scripts are (I assume they're .vcxprojs these days, but can find neither these of .mak's).
I urgently need to build a instrumented set of release mode MFC DLLs that use the same coupling as the standard parts (i.e. these need to be extention DLLs - just pulling the MFC sources directly into the project is not going to hack it).
Any help pointers to the build scripts would be super helpful.
I don't understand your need. Maybe you simply need to use MFC in a static lib configuration?
Try 'Use MFC in a Static Library' on project settings.
If you are writing a dll maybe this help:
Regular DLLs Statically Linked to MFC
I use VS2005 but the version is not integrated to fxcop. Now I need to have some code metrics and the most proper is fxcop. How can I integrate VS with fxcop? Which version of fxcop do I need? What else should I take under consideration before I integrate fxcop?
Thanks,
Sun
As far as I know, the only way to do this is to run FxCop as an external tool. See here for details:
http://geekswithblogs.net/sdorman/archive/2007/02/18/106630.aspx
You should be able to use the latest version of FxCop, if you want to.
I got a project, source code, etc, using SCONS. Could you recommend tools/ways to convert or integrate it in a Visual Studio C command line project ?
Hi this may be usefull http://www.scons.org/wiki/IDEIntegration#head-a0b9e629986abc8528bdd599bac43a22cd161bf4
I realize this doesn't directly answer your question but I'd reconsider against using SCONS. Native Visual Studio projects have too many advantages such as being able to use Incredibuild, Visual Assist et c.
Instead you might want to look at XPJ:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xpj/
What it does is generates a vcproj from an XML file, which can also be used to generate a SCONS project if absolutely necessary.
If you are not convinced, you can custom command line project option in Visual Studio and have it invoke the SCONS build.
Some of the old projects in our company are left to be built with VS2005 in autobuild system (making them build correctly in 2010 cost time). Is it any addins for VS2010 that will allow to open VS2005 project and edit it's files without converting project file itself to VS2010 format (converting will kill autobuild)? Of course i can create a separate project named "xxx_vs2010.vcproj" for each of such products, but that will be a mess :(.
No.
An alternative to consider is to target the VS2005 C++ toolchain from within VS2010. See Native Multi-Targeting and the Project Upgrade Guide. That way, no need to modify source code to appease the VS2010 C++ compiler.
I want to start the develop of a custom project type for Visual Studio that builds a BPR project with Visual Studio.
I need some hints to beginning with this project. Where can I find a template for this type of projects?
My target is to remove the Borland C++Builder's ugly and unstable interface from the development process and work enterely from Visual Studio.
Edit: Oops, I didn't really see that you're about to create a new project type for C++ Builder files. In that case, you have to build a language package. The Visual Studio Extensibility site should get you started. Also have a look at this more specific link.
I'll leave my old answer here for reference, because it might help people who just want to build C++Builder projects without creating a whole new project type :)
You didn't specify the version of Visual Studio, but I'll assume a recent one. In Visual Studio 8 and 9, most project files (all popular ones except Visual C++) are actually MSBuild files and can therefore be built by MSBuild. You can add a simple command line task (Exec) to build your bpr on the command line, or you can create a custom task for this (if you don't find one already available - the search terms should be MSBuild and custom task). This way, both Visual Studio and MSBuild can build anything you like. If you don't have an MSBuild file to start with or want to dive into developing a task, the MSBuild project template for Visual Studio will help you.
Oh, and other than that, if you don't actually need C++Builder things, you might as well export the BPR as a solution (or create a new solution and add the files).
Integrating C++Builder projects into a build process should be a lot easier with C++Builder 2007 or 2009 as both use MSBuild as build system. But then, I think that upgrading to a recent version of C++Builder solves your problem the other way :)