[openmapi.org devel] Build System

[Johannes Roith]

Hello, Fred!

Thanks! This is good news, and, since xbuild is a clone of msbuild I
did not consider the issue to be much of a problem anyway. Microsoft
has very good documentation on msdn.

Johannes.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Frederick
Roth<frederick.roth at innovidata.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I opened a bug report against xbuild about the missing documentation.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531276
>
> Now we at least have some usage help and the promise of a manpage.
>
> Additionally I found out what was the "error" in the .build file Achim
> provided. To compile you have to use the Csc task (with captial C at the
> beginning) maybe this is due to the unix bug of not ignoring case in
> filenames ;)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Fred
>
> Achim Derigs wrote:
>> Hi Johannes!
>>
>> Using xbuild/msbuild is difficult without any documentation:
>>
>> $ xbuild /?
>> No usage help yet
>>
>> Looking at http://www.mono-project.com/Microsoft.Build doesn't make things better.
>> Far from it! It is the only explicit documentation about xbuild.
>>
>> Implicit documentation may be found at:
>>
>>    http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/VisualStudio/microsoft.public.vsnet.general/2006-12/msg00090.html
>>
>> But that doesn't match. For example:
>>
>> <Project DefaultTargets = "Compile"
>>     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" >
>>
>>     <PropertyGroup>
>>         <dllname>GoldParser</dllname>
>>     </PropertyGroup>
>>
>>     <ItemGroup>
>>         <CSFile Include = "lib/GoldParser/*.cs"/>
>>     </ItemGroup>
>>
>>     <Target Name = "Compile">
>>         <MSC
>>             Sources = "@(CSFile)"
>>             OutputAssembly = "$(dllname).dll">
>>             <Output
>>                 TaskParameter = "OutputAssembly"
>>                 ItemName = "EXEFile" />
>>         </MSC>
>>         <!-- Log the file name of the output file -->
>>         <Message Text="The output file is @(EXEFile)"/>
>>     </Target>
>> </Project>
>>
>> Results in:
>>
>> $ xbuild GoldParser.proj
>> XBuild Engine Version 0.1
>> Mono, Version 2.4.0.0
>> Copyright (C) Marek Sieradzki 2005. All rights reserved.
>>
>> Build started 8/14/2009 11:47:14 AM.
>> __________________________________________________
>> Project "/home/felfert/nmapi/GoldParser.proj" (Compile target(s)):
>>
>> Target Compile:
>> System.Exception: Not registered task MSC.
>>   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskDatabase.GetTypeFromClassName (System.String classname) [0x00000]
>>   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildTask.get_Type () [0x00000]
>>   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildTask.InitializeTask () [0x00000]
>>   at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.BuildTask.Execute () [0x00000]
>>
>> Build succeeded.
>>          0 Warning(s)
>>          1 Error(s)
>>
>> Time Elapsed 00:00:00.0412230
>>
>> It seems that we have to wait for better documentation and/or code quality for a start.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Achim
>>
>> On Friday, 7. August 2009 17:31:01 Johannes Roith wrote:
>>> Hello, everyone!
>>>
>>> I would like to see the NMapi build script changed from Makefiles to
>>> msbuild/xbuild.
>>>
>>> There are three main reasons:
>>>
>>> 1. People keep asking about how to build NMapi on Windows. Using
>>> xbuild/msbuild removes the unix dependency and also makes it possible to
>>> build from VisualStudio (which has also been requested multiple times).
>>>
>>> 2. We are using several tools in the build process, including
>>> xslt-generated code, mlog (custom), preproc (custom) and, soon, mapimap.
>>> Using msbuild we can integrate these tools very nicely.
>>>
>>> 3. It is difficult or impossible to build silverlight or iphone apps
>>> without msbuild.
>>>
>>> Mono XBuild (msbuild) seems to be complete enough to be used use it now.
>>>
>>> So, if you want to contribute to OpenMapi, this seems like a great
>>> opportunity to get involved!),
>>>
>>> Johannes.
>>>
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