[Buildbot-devel] Windows specific tips for buildbot

[Stephen Farrar]

Hi Timothee,

Timothee Besset wrote:
> === How do you create build steps for Visual Studio?
> This should be a simple matter of calling devenv.exe with the
> appropriate parameters, so I'm doing something like that:
>
> s( step.ShellCommand, command=
> r'"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /build "Debug|Win32" /out build.log' )
>
> which doesn't quite work:
>
> '\"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe\"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> What's the proper way of escaping the path?
>   

Here's what we use:

devenv = r'"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 
2003\Common7\IDE\devenv.com"'

s( step.ShellCommand, command=[devenv, r"path\to\project.sln", "/build", 
"debug"], ...)

In Visual studio 7.1 it was quite important to use devenv.com rather 
than devenv.exe.  Not sure if the same is true in version 8.

Hope this helps,

Stephen