[gephex-devel] Status of win32 build system for gephex-0.4

[Georg Seidel]

>> It would be especially nice to find a solution that let's one build 
>> gephex
>> using only the free vs .net compiler without the gui and third party 
>> tools.
> 
> 
> MutantBuild seems to be able to compile solution files from the command
> line:
> http://www.testdriven.net/wiki/default.aspx/MyWiki.MutantBuild
> 
> If I understood that correctly, it is built on top of MSBuild:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/0k6kkbsd.aspx
> 
> The documentation is a bit .NET biased, don't know how well it works
> for C++ projects...

More interesting links:

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This looks like a small C# application to automate builds:
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/builditemincontextmenu.asp

It seems to use devenv
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxgrfCommandLineSwitches.asp

Still not sure whether the full IDE is needed for devenv. Seems devenv is not part of the
free compiler from microsoft.

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Here is a tutorial for using the free visual c++ compiler from ms:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vctoolkitcmd.asp

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