I am migrating a few solutions into azure devops and want to use the MSBuild Task to build them.
The are currently build using devenv with the following commands:
devenv.com file.vcxproj /rebuild "unittest debug" /project project_name
I thought I would try with
msbuild.exe file.vcxproj /p:Project=project_name /p:configuration="unittest debug"
But I am getting the error that the project does not contains the "unittest debug"
I would appreaciate any help I could get.
Thanks for reading,
The devenv command line you are using doesn't make complete sense.
file.vcxproj is a C++ project. If it were a solution, e.g. somesolution.sln, then the /project switch would make sense, e.g. if somesolution.sln included file.vcxproj then the following command would build file.vcxproj.
devenv.com somesolution.sln /project file
Solutions and projects have a 'configuration' and a 'platform'. "unittest debug" looks like an attempt to specify this information but the syntax is not correct. The correct syntax is
<configuration>|<platform>
The default configuratuion values are Debug and Release.
I suspect that
"unittest debug"
should be
"debug|unittest".
The original devenv command line can probably be rewritten as
devenv.com file.vcxproj /rebuild "debug|unittest"
The MSBuild equivalent is
msbuild.exe file.vcxproj /t:rebuild /p:configuration=debug;platform=unittest
The /build, /clean, and /rebuild switches on devenv map to MSBuild targets in the C++ project. The C++ project also expects configuration and platform as separate properties.