[bind10-dev] Windows auto builds and tests of BIND 10

[Danny Mayer]

On 7/9/2012 7:41 PM, Dave Hart wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 23:04 UTC, Francis Dupont wrote:
>>> Can this be easily automated to build and run BIND 10 tests?
>>
>> => there are batch builders (but not part of the Express versions).
>> All built unittests work (and I know what is the problem for datasrc
>> even I don't understand the deep source).
> 
> While VC++ Express 2010 does not include vcbuild.exe, it is included
> with the prior VC++ Express 2008.  Separately, in the IDE, Batch Build
> is horribly broken with no fix planned for VC++ Express 2010 -- it
> appears to work, but some build settings are ignored so coverage is
> lost.  It works correctly in the 2008 IDE.
> 

That's because you should be using msbuild instead of vcbuild. Here's an
example:
msbuild BINDBuild.sln


There's a discussion of the differences between msbuild and vcbuild
here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2010/01/11/vcbuild-vs-c-msbuild-on-the-command-line.aspx

I've been using msbuild for quite a long time. The above example is from
BIND9. I had put it in the rt18632 branch.

Danny
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart