Use vcbuild to compile the Visual Studio project on the command line

Use vcbuild to compile the Visual Studio project on the command line

I recently upgraded to vs2008 and found that the old ace is no longer usable. Although I do not like Ace very much, I have to re-compile ACE + Tao because of work needs. The company's broken computer compilation Ace is still making it happen, and it is a little powerless to compile Tao with vs2008 (too many projects and too many files), just listen to the CPU fan burst, then, the computer ran around for a long time (I used to compile Tao at home, and then I took the binary file to the company for use ).

So I thought that compiling directly in the command line may be much faster, but I found it and did not see the makefile files available for nmake, I remember that I could export the VC project as makefile, but I couldn't find it now. I checked it online. In Versions later than vs2005, I provided a vcbuild tool, you can directly compile Visual Studio projects and solutions.

The Command Format of vcbuild is as follows:
Vcbuild [Options] [Project | solution] [config | $ all]

There are not many introductions in msdn, but only some options descriptions. The actual example is as follows:
Vcbuild/rebuild dftj_tools_vc8.sln "Release | Win32"

Because "Release | Win32" contains a '|' symbol, it cannot be used directly and must be enclosed in quotation marks.

Here is a bat file I wrote, which can compile ACE + Tao at one time (environment variables and config. h need to be set ).
Cd % ace_root %/ace
Vcbuild/upgrade ace_vc8.vcproj
Vcbuild ace_vc8.vcproj "Debug | Win32"

Cd % ace_root %/apps/gperf/src
Vcbuild/upgrade gperf_vc8.vcproj
Vcbuild gperf_vc8.vcproj "Debug | Win32"

Cd % tao_root %/tao_idl
Vcbuild/upgrade tao_idl_vc8.sln
Vcbuild tao_idl_vc8.sln "Debug | Win32"

Cd % tao_root %/Tao
Vcbuild/upgrade tao_vc8.sln
Vcbuild tao_vc8.sln "Debug | Win32"

Cd % tao_root %/orbsvcs
Vcbuild/upgrade orbsvcs_vc8.sln
Vcbuild orbsvcs_vc8.sln "Debug | Win32"

In addition, a shell script for compiling ACE + Tao under UNIX is attached.
#! /Bin/CSH

# Install ace
CD $ ace_root/ace;
Rm-F config. h;
Ln-s config-sunos5.9.h config. h;

CD $ ace_root/include/makeinclude;
Rm-F platform_macros.gnu;
Ln-s platform_sunos5_g ++. GNU platform_macros.gnu;

CD $ ace_root/ace; gmake;

# Install Tao
CD $ ace_root/apps/gperf/src; gmake;

CD $ tao_root/tao_idl; gmake;
CD $ tao_root/TAO; gmake;
CD $ tao_root/TAO/orbsvcs; gmake;

Compiling through command lines is indeed much more concise. Visual Studio is powerful, and it seems that it is not flexible.