Anyone here use Nant? <solution> tag help

20 Dec 2006 9:07 PM

Spam Catcher

Hello Everyone,

I just started using nant in conjunction with cruisecontrol.net. The
<solution> tag has been great in helping us compile VS.NET 2003 projects
without need to write a nant build file.

My project compiles stuff into a directory like:

C:\DEV_Machine\Build_Directory <-Empty
                C:\DEV_Machine\Build_Directory\Project_1 <-Project 1 Bin
files
                C:\DEV_Machine\Build_Directory\Project_2 <-Project 2 Bin
files
                C:\DEV_Machine\Build_Directory\Project_3 <-Project 3 Bin
files
                C:\DEV_Machine\Build_Directory\Project_4 <-Project 4 Bin
files
                Etc.

However, on my build server I like to output the files to:

C:\SomeOtherDir\
                C:\ SomeOtherDir \Project_1
                C:\ SomeOtherDir \Project_2
                C:\ SomeOtherDir \Project_3
                C:\ SomeOtherDir\Project_4
                Etc.
I tried using the outputdir attribute in the <solution> tag, but when I
use it, all my files are dumped into the root directory specified (c:
\someotherdir). Nant doesn't seem to create the sub directories.

Here is my simple build file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<project name="MediaCenter SDK">
     <property name="nant.settings.currentframework" value="net-1.1" />
     <solution
     configuration="debug"
     solutionfile="Consoles.sln"
     outputdir="..\..\Build Release\MyProjectOutputs ">

>

     <assemblyfolders>
                <include name="..\..\Build Release\References" />
           </assemblyfolders>
     </solution>
</project>

Is there any way of getting this to work with v0.85?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

21 Dec 2006 10:54 AM

Michael Nemtsev

Hello Spam,

Have u tried to use NAntContrib "slingshot" to convert VS solution to Nant
build file?
Read there http://objectsharp.com/cs/blogs/barry/archive/2003/11/13/193.aspx

SC> I just started using nant in conjunction with cruisecontrol.net. The
SC> <solution> tag has been great in helping us compile VS.NET 2003
SC> projects without need to write a nant build file.
SC>
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