Question

Nant seems very compiler-centric – which is guess is because it’s considered a .NET development system. But I know it can be done! I’ve seen it. The platform we’re building on has its own compiler and doesn’t use ‘cl.exe’ for c++. We’re building a C++ app on a different platform and would like to override with our own compiler. Can anyone point me at a way to do that or at least how to set up a target of my own that will use our target platform’s compiler?

Answer 1

Here is one I did for Delphi. Each ‘arg’ is a separate param with a value defined elsewhere. The target is called with the params set up before calling it.

<target name='build.application'>     <exec program='dcc32' basedir='${Delphi.Bin}' workingdir='${Application.Folder}' verbose='true'>         <arg value='${Application.Compiler.Directive}' />         <arg value='-Q' />         <arg value='/B' />         <arg value='/E${Application.Output.Folder}' />         <arg value='/U${Application.Lib.Folder};${Application.Search.Folder}' />         <arg value='${Application.Folder}\${Delphi.Project}' />     </exec> </target>