I have finally managed to perform automatically the copy from Project B without having to modify it. IIya was not so far from the solution, but the fact is that I cannot generate statically as the list of files to generate from Project A with MyCustomTask is dynamic. After digging more into Microsoft.Common.targets, I have … Read more
So I devised a rather creative solution to my problem… it appears that CMake has no functionality to detect the target architecture whatsoever. Now, we know we can easily do this in C because symbols like __i386__, __x86_64__, etc., will be defined depending on your environment. Fortunately CMake has a try_run function which will compile … Read more
It took me a while and it also took me taking small snippets from a number of different sources and melting them together, but I think I have a small working example that sufficiently demonstrates to a Perl newbie the Perl build process including unit testing and code coverage analysis & reporting. (I’m using ActiveState … Read more
A compile-time dependency is generally required at runtime. In maven, a compile scoped dependency will be added to the classpath on runtime (e.g. in wars they will be copied to WEB-INF/lib). It is not, however, strictly required; for instance, we may compile against a certain API, making it a compile-time dependency, but then at runtime … Read more
Maven 3 (as of beta 1) now supports parallel builds as an experimental feature. For example, mvn -T 4 clean install # Builds with 4 threads mvn -T 1C clean install # 1 thread per cpu core mvn -T 1.5C clean install # 1.5 thread per cpu core Full documentation can be found on the … Read more
I looked into maven about six months ago. We were starting a new project, and didn’t have any legacy to support. That said: Maven is all-or-nothing. Or at least as far as I could tell from the documentation. You can’t easily use maven as a drop-in replacement for ant, and gradually adopt more advanced features. … Read more
Menu Tools → Options → Projects and Solutions → Build and Run → MSBuild project build output verbosity: Diagnostic
When moving from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2010., our .exe’s grew for example from 16 megs to 35 megs. I asked a question similar to yours on the Embarcadero forum a few weeks ago. (link) In my OP, I listed a series of links on this subject that you might find helpful. We tried using … Read more
Use the BaseIntermediateOutputPath property in the project file (.csproj, .vbproj, etc.), as explained at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb629394.aspx. You’ll have to manually edit the XML document using a text editor, then reload it in Visual Studio. It may still create the obj folder (that’s a known bug), but will leave it empty and put the actual obj files … Read more
CMake is actually pretty good for this. The key part was everyone on the Windows side has to remember to run CMake before loading in the solution, and everyone on our Mac side would have to remember to run it before make. The hardest part was as a Windows developer making sure your structural changes … Read more