Re: [Nant-users] Newbie question: VBC vs. Solution task

[Ian MacLean]

Shawn Knowles wrote:
Thanks Ian.  I have resolved the problem.  I downloaded the latest
nightly build so that I could automatically use the 1.1 framework and
everything works.  (My machine doesn't have 1.0 installed)  Now that
they are building however, the VBC produces an 80kb binary while the
SOLUTION and IDE both produce a 164kb binary.  I assume I am missing
something in my VBC build script.
 

Probably. If your project contains forms then you'll need to add a 
<resources> tag to <vbc> and add the .resx files to it.

Ian
Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:35 PM
To: Ian MacLean
Cc: Shawn Knowles; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Newbie question: VBC vs. Solution task

/ I mean 'It would help ...'/
 

I would help if you also post the text of the exception you get form 
the Solution task built version. Also - do the built binaries differ 
in file size ?  We've had issues previously where resources weren't 
compiled in properly causing a runtime exception.

Ian
Shawn Knowles wrote:
   

I would prefer building my solution using the solution task as
     

opposed
 

to the VBC task but I have been unsuccessful in doing so.  I know I
     

am
 

missing something because when I compile using VBC and specify all
includes and imports the exe works fine.  Using the SOLUTION task,
     

the
 

exe compiles without error but throws an exception when executed.
     

Any
 

thoughts as to what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Shawn

-------------------------------------------------
--------------- VBC METHOD ----------------------
-------------------------------------------------

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="CS" default="build" basedir="CS">

    <property name="nant.settings.currentframework"
     

value="net-1.1"/>
 

  <property name="basename" value="CS"/>
  <property name="debug" value="true"/>
  <property name="build.dir" value="..\build\vbc"/>

  <target name="clean" description="cleans build directory">
      <delete>
          <fileset basedir="${build.dir}">
                      <includes name="*.*"/>
                      <excludes name="csconfig.xml"/>
                </fileset>
      </delete>
  </target>

  <target name="build" depends="clean">
      <mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
      <vbc target="winexe" output="${build.dir}\${basename}.exe"
debug="${debug}"
     

imports="Microsoft.VisualBasic,System,System.Collections,System.Data,Sys
 

tem.Diagnostics,System.Drawing,System.Windows.Forms"
              optioncompare="text"
              optionexplicit="true"
              optionstrict="false"
              rootnamespace="CS"
              removeintchecks="true">
          <sources>
              <includes name="*.vb"/>
          </sources>
          <references>
              <includes asis="true" name="System.dll"/>
              <includes asis="true" name="System.Data.dll"/>
              <includes asis="true" name="System.Drawing.dll"/>
              <includes asis="true"
     

name="System.Windows.Forms.dll"/>
 

              <includes asis="true" name="System.XML.dll"/>
          </references>
          <arg value="/main:CS.Form1"/>
      </vbc>
      <copy file="csconfig.xml" todir="${build.dir}"/>
  </target>

  <target name="run" depends="build">
      <exec program="${basename}.exe" basedir="${build.dir}"/>
  </target>
</project>

-------------------------------------------------
------------- SOLUTION METHOD -------------------
-------------------------------------------------

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="BuildingSolution" default="build" basedir="."
xmlns="http://nant.sf.net/schemas/nant-0.85.win32.net-1.0.xsd";>
  <property name="nant.settings.currentframework" value="net-1.1"/>
  <property name="Solution.Filename" value="CS.sln"/>
  <property name="Solution.Configuration" value="debug"/>
  <property name="build.dir" value="build\solution"/>
  <target name="clean" description="remove all generated files">
      <delete>
                <fileset basedir="${build.dir}">
                      <includes name="*.*"/>
                      <excludes name="csconfig.xml"/>
                </fileset>
      </delete>
  </target>
  <target name="build" description="compiles the source code"
depends="clean">
          <solution solutionfile="${Solution.Filename}"
outputdir="${build.dir}" configuration="${Solution.Configuration}"
verbose="true"/>
          <copy file="csconfig.xml" todir="${build.dir}"/>
  </target>
</project>

     

   


 


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Ian MacLean, Developer, 
ActiveState, a division of Sophos
http://www.ActiveState.com


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