Bill Arnette wrote:
<bill>
I asked a similar question a while ago and never got a response. Basically
my question was what is the Nant equivalent of a C++ makefile?
</bill>
There is no answer to that, because there's no such thing as a canonical
C++ makefile. Perhaps you have in mind the NMake files that Visual
Studio (at least some versions) would generate.
Most, if not all, NAnt tasks that create target files are designed so
that the only perform the task if the target files are out of date. If
you invoke a NAnt solution task, it will always spend time analyzing the
solution file, but it won't rebuild .dll or .exe files unless it thinks
it necessary (i.e. it won't invoke the compiler). I don't use the cl or
other compiler tasks directly, but I'd assume they work the same way.
The copy task also works this way (which surprises some people).
Gary
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