Nant Help

[mikelee]

I am new to nant and I am trying to build a simple HelloWorld C++ program. When I build my file, I'm getting this error:

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C:\nant\examples\HelloWorld>nant

NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.1740.0; net-1.0.win32; nightly; 10/6/2004)

Copyright © 2001-2004 Gerry Shaw

http://nant.sourceforge.net

 

Buildfile: file:///C:/nant/examples/HelloWorld/default.build

Target(s) specified: run

 

build:

 

[cl] Compiling 1 files to 'C:\nant\examples\HelloWorld\build'.

 

BUILD FAILED

 

C:\nant\examples\HelloWorld\default.build(31,10):

'cl' failed to start.

The system cannot find the file specified

 

Total time: 0.5 seconds.

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The build script looks like this:

 

<cl outputdir="build" options="/clr">

<sources>

<include name="HelloWorld.cpp" />

</sources>

</cl>

 

The c# script works fine:

 

<csc target="exe" output="${basename}-cs.exe" debug="${debug}">

<sources>

<include name="${basename}.cs"/>

</sources>

</csc>

 

Would anyone have any idea to why I might be getting this error. I couldnt find much help online for nant and c++ help. Any kind of hints or guidelines would be greatly appreciated!

[mocella]

The file you're looking for is either at

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\bin

or

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin

 

You'll have to update your Nant.exe.config to know where to look, etc.

[mikelee]

Which file do you mean? According to the task help manual provided by NANT says that the task <cl> requires Nant.VisualCppTasks which is located in c:\nant\bin\. The helloworld.cpp is located in c:\nant\e xamples\helloworld folder as well as the bulid script. I just not sure if the script is correct and why this build is failing. :mad:

[mocella]

Do you have VS2002 installed on your machine? Not sure if it matters, but it looks like the CL-Task expects CL.exe version is the one from VS2002, not VS2003.

 

From the Nant Site:

This task is intended for version 13.00.9466 of cl.exe.

 

The versions of CL.exe are

VS2002: 13.00.9466.0

VS2003: 13.10.3077.0

 

This link may help: http://www.mail-archive.com/nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04916.html

 

Beyond this, I'm pretty unsure of how to tell you to proceed. Sorry