VC6 : compiles VC++ v.6

Changes

Initial Version

Installation

copy jarrizza.jar into directory ant\lib
add the following line to your build.xml
<taskdef name="vc6" classname="com.arrizza.ant.taskdefs.VC6"/>

Notes

This taskdef compiles a VC6 C++ solution.

Name Required? Default Property Notes

projectrootfolder no current dir VC6_ROOT the folder where the project folders are.

projectfolder no targetname none The project folder is assumed to have the same name as the ant target

project no targetname.dsp none The project file is assumed to have the same name as the ant target

buildmode no release VC6BUILDMODE typically release or debug;

compilerfolder no none VC6COMPILERFOLDER the folder where msdev.exe can be found

failonerror no true none if true, compilation stops on first failure.

logfile no null VC6LOGFILE all compilation output is redirected to this file

targets no targetname.dsp none a fileset indicating which .dsp to build

rebuild no true none true to rebuild, false to just build

Logfile

All output from the compilation goes to standard output (Don't forget about ant's facility for naming a listener task on the command line! See Listeners and Loggers at http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html ) If you use a property

    <property name='VC6LOGFILE'  value='vc6out.txt' />

all vc6 task output will go to that file instead. Using a logfile attribute in a target override the property and direct all output to the given file. This example shows that the output from testvc6_3 target will go to jaa3.txt and the output from testvc6_4 will go to jaa4.txt:

  <target name='testvc6_3'  depends='init' >
      <vc6  buildmode='${mode}' projectrootfolder='${srcdir}' logfile='jaa3.txt' rebuild='${rebuild}'>
         <targets dir='${srcdir}' includes='**/atest3.dsp' />
      </vc6>
  </target>
  <target name='testvc6_4'  depends='init4' >
      <vc6  buildmode='${mode}' projectrootfolder='${srcdir}' logfile='jaa4.txt' rebuild='${rebuild}'>
         <targets dir='${srcdir}' includes='**/atest4.dsp' />
      </vc6>
  </target>

Targets

Here is an example of the Targets fileset. Given a directory structure like this:

    D:\projects\test\ant_vc6\
                             \atest1\atest1.dsp
                             \atest2\atest2.dsp
                             \atest3\atest3.dsp

Then this build.xml will compile all the .dsp's

      <project name='testvc'
               default='testvc6'
               basedir='.'>
        
        <!-- Note: the classpath is unnecessary if you have jarrizza.jar already in your classpath -->
        <taskdef name='vc6'       classname='com.arrizza.ant.taskdefs.VC6' classpath='jarrizza.jar' />

          <!--  ==================================== -->
        <target name='init'>
          <property name='srcdir'  value='d:/projects/test/ant_vc6' />
          <property name='mode'    value='debug' />
        </target>

       <target name='testvc6'        depends='init'>
            <vc6  buildmode='${mode}' projectrootfolder='${srcdir}'>
               <targets dir='${srcdir}' includes='**/*.dsp' />
            </vc6>
        </target>
      </project>

The output will look like this:

    D:\projects\test\ant_vc6>ant -v
    Apache Ant version 1.5.1 compiled on October 2 2002
    Buildfile: build.xml
    Detected Java version: 1.4 in: E:\tools\jdk\jre
    Detected OS: Windows 2000
    parsing buildfile build.xml with URI = file:D:/projects/test/ant_vc6/build.xml
    Project base dir set to: D:\projects\test\ant_vc6
    Build sequence for target `testvc6' is [init, testvc6]
    Complete build sequence is [init, testvc6]
    
    init:
    
    testvc6:
          [vc6] Command= msdev.exe /out logfile.txt D:\projects\test\ant_vc6\atest1\atest1.dsp /make "all - debug"
     /rebuild
          [vc6] Command= msdev.exe /out logfile.txt D:\projects\test\ant_vc6\atest2\atest2.dsp /make "all - debug"
     /rebuild
          [vc6] Command= msdev.exe /out logfile.txt D:\projects\test\ant_vc6\atest3\atest3.dsp /make "all - debug"
     /rebuild
    
    BUILD SUCCESSFUL
    Total time: 6 seconds
    D:\projects\test\ant_vc6>

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Name	Required?	Default	Property	Notes
projectrootfolder	no	current dir	VC6_ROOT	the folder where the project folders are.
projectfolder	no	targetname	none	The project folder is assumed to have the same name as the ant target
project	no	targetname.dsp	none	The project file is assumed to have the same name as the ant target
buildmode	no	release	VC6BUILDMODE	typically release or debug;
compilerfolder	no	none	VC6COMPILERFOLDER	the folder where msdev.exe can be found
failonerror	no	true	none	if true, compilation stops on first failure.
logfile	no	null	VC6LOGFILE	all compilation output is redirected to this file
targets	no	targetname.dsp	none	a fileset indicating which .dsp to build
rebuild	no	true	none	true to rebuild, false to just build