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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:59:32+00:00

I’m trying to automate the building process for a certain open source project. It

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I’m trying to automate the building process for a certain open source project. It will do an update on the SVN directory, use CMake to get a .sln file, and build that. I can successfully do this manually, and do svn and cmake from a batch script, but Now I need to build the solution.

A quick google search revealed:

devenv /build release /project <projname> <solutionfile>.sln

However, that uses the latest version of visual studio (Visual Studio Professional 2011), while the .sln file generated is for Visual C++ Express 2008. I have both versions installed on my computer. Is there a devenv I can use for Visual C++ Express 2008? Or is there a commandline argument to specify which version to use?

UPDATE

I tried using msbuild, but that didn’t seem to like building .vcproj files directly, and I didn’t want to build ALL the project files by having it build the .sln file. I ended up using this:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcpackages\vcbuild.exe" <myproj>.vcproj "Release|Win32"
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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you are using the wrong tool to build this. Rather than trying to drive the IDE from the command line you should simply use msbuild.

    msbuild.exe projectname.proj /property:Configuration=Release

    In order to set your environment up for the specific version of MSVC you need to call the vcvar.bat file from that specific version. This will set up the necessary environment variables needed by the build tools.

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