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Visual Studio Express Custom Build Step problems

I want to use Visual Studio express to build a static library from existing third party source. Basically I just need a custom build step that looks like the following :

cd ${ProjDir}\windows
nmake

But no matter what I try I get a "system can't find the specified path" error. The way the third party source is structured I need to cd into the windows subdir and run nmake. I can't, for instance, do the following :

nmake ${ProjDir}\windows\Makefile

What's the trick here?

szchlacta Monday, October 05, 2009 7:37 PM

Unfortunately, the Build Events just runs commands - it isn't a full command shell where you can call cd, etc.

One option would be to make a batch file that looked like:

cd %1
nmake

Then call your batch file directly:

myBuildBatch.bat "${ProjDir}\Windows"

This way, it'll execute inside of a batch file, which gives it a context where you can use cd.

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