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Objectives
To create the wrapper that would transform the command line
formatted for the MSDEV program of Microsoft Developer Studio 6.0 to the
format of
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the BuildConsole utility of IncrediBuild by Xoreax Software
that is used for distributed project compilation (http://www.xoreax.com).
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Results
The designed utility is intended for distributed compilation of large scale
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 projects using the Xoreax IncrediBuild suite.
Normally, the compilation is performed using scenarios/scripts (the bat
files) that assume the use of the msdev.exe program of Microsoft
Developer Studio 6.0. The use of this utility allows to significantly
reduce the build time for large scale projects without changing the
projects and build script structure (that is possible due to
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parallel compilation of the project parts across multiple computers). This, in its turn,
accelerates the process of large scale program system design and
debugging. For instance, the project, that used to be assembled during 45 minutes,
managed to be built during 6 minutes without making any changes to the
project itself or to the build scripts, by using this utility. Such
effect was achieved due to the project compilation being performed
across 10 machines simultaneously.
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Technical peculiarities
There exists a nice software product designed for distributed compilation
of Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 projects across multiple machines, that is
IncrediBuild by Xoreax Software. Unfortunately, the existing
scripts (the .bat files) cannot be used unchanged for the project
compilation, since the BuildConsole.exe utility that starts the
distributed project build accepts input parameters in the format
different from the format of the msdev.exe program input parameters.
To solve this
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problem, we designed the msdev.exe wrapper which is
launched from the command files, used for batch build of Microsoft
Visual C++ 6.0 projects, instead of the original msdev.exe of Microsoft
Developer Studio 6.0. The utility uses its command line parameters to
form the command line of another format, suitable for Xoreax
tool. Then the utility starts BuilConsole.exe to build the project,
redirecting the its output into the file or to the console if necessary.
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