Is there a way to modify the properties of a file (exe in my case) with a final builder action after the file has been created?
Specifically, I'd like to change:
File description
Product name
Product version
And remove:
File version
Original filename
The normal approach with finalbuild is to set these values as part of the compile EXE action. For instance, when your FinalBuilder process includes a Compiler action you should be able to configure these values.
However if your doing this in a post exe built phase, Try the Wind32 Version Info Updater Action.
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In my C++ application, I have a text file (dataFile.txt) that is installed on the Linux target machine in the following path:
/SoftwareHomeDir/Configuration/Application/dataFile.txt
This file exists on my Rational ClearCase source code environment under the path:
/ProjectName/config/Application/dataFile.txt
I am developping a unitTest in gtest that does following:
Read a specific data from dataFile.txt , if the data does not exist than write it into the file.
1) I am avoiding to create an environment variable to check whether I am in the compilation environment or the target machine. Then add additional test code in the final release. I really want to separate test code from final code.
2) I am not using any IDE (no visual studio, no qt, etc.), just notepad++
3) The compilatio. server is shared (access with a username, however the root folder "/" is shared. Which means that if I create the path "/SoftwareHomeDir/Confiugration/Application/dataFile.txt", it will be visible by all users, and if another user is running his gtest unitTest, he may overwrite my file.
4) In the final code, the path to the dataFile is hard coded, and it is very costly (will take few seconds to run) to implement a filesearch(filename) method to look for the file in the entire hard drive before reading the file.
Question:
I am looking for a solution to unit-test my code in the compilation environment that is using /ProjectName/config/Application/dataFile.txt
The solution to my problem was to combine gmock with gtest as described by the link
https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/googlemock/docs/CookBook.md#delegating-calls-to-a-fake
The only modification I made to my code is that instead of defining the path to the configuration data using #define, I created a function getConfigFilePath() that returns the hardcoded path of the configuration file in the installed application. From here, I mocked the class and in my mock, I call a fake getConfigFilePath() that returns, when the real code is executing, the hardcoded path of the config file in the project tree in ClearCase. This is precisely what I was looking for.
I want a run a build step that looks at a .h file, adds some code based on some external params, and hands the resulting file to the preprocessor.
I see the "Custom Build Step" in the project properties. It seems to need an output file. I just want to forward the results to the preprocessor.
It seems like the custom build step wants to do a 1-time process, not per-file or by file type.
The problem is that I don't know how to send my external executable the file currently being processed (eg, "HelloWorld.cpp"). $(InputName) and %(Filename) are blank and docs say it's deprecated. How do I send the filename to my external executable?
But even if I get that working, I don't want to set this per-file. I want all header files to go through this process.
Any ideas?
I've looked at:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd293663.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hefydhhy(v=vs.90).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770593(v=vs.140).aspx
working on a debug, x64 config on windows.
First of all, No, you cannot modify a file and pass along the results to the next stage (that I could see). I'd need some sort of Program Transformation System.
So I need an intermediate file. That file has to be added to the project, even if it gets overwritten by your code generator. I can associate c++ header files with a custom build tool, and they will all get called one-by-one in the stage of the build specified in the Custom Build Step. The custom build tool will modify the intermediate file(s), and all is well.
The VS 2015 name for the current file being processed is %(Filename). In older versions it has been $(ProjectName) and $(InputName).
I'm using RTC(Rational Team Concert) to build project. Coz there's a property file in my project which include code like this -
url=#COMMON_URL#
dir=#REPORT_DIR#
I need to replace these properties as real variable according to different envirenment when build, it seems I can do that by config 'Properties file' and 'Environment variables' in build definition 'Command Line' Tab. But I've tried several times, I cannot find the output file(Properties file contain all build definition) and don't know how to replace my file in project.
If someone is familiar with RTC, plase help me, thanks.
In Build definition there u can find the properties tab..there you can add your environment variables->save that build definition ->go to Build Fore tab->click on Synchronize Properties button (it will load your new env variable to server)->it will again modifies the build definition, but dont save it.
Those environment variables (defined in the properties tab of a build definition or a build request) should be passed along to the Build Engine associated with the Build Definition, and be present on the actual Build master itself (BuildForge, Hudson, Jenkins, ...) when said build will start.
That means your actual build script has the opportunity to modify your config file, replacing the placeholder #COMMON_URL# with the value derived from the environment variable $COMMON_URL.
I would like to change the dynamic variable ${selected_resource_loc} such that I get rid of the extension (and can add another one).
The purpose is to build the current selected file, but therefore I don't need the .cc-file in my command but the .o-file with the same name.
Detailed description:
I have a customized make command (lets say make) and would like to execute make selectedFileName.o, where the current selected file in eclipse is selectedFileName.cc. (I put the command as build command in project properties -> C/C++ Build.) With variable ${selected_resource_loc} in behaviour tab I get make selectedFileName.cc.
I solved my problem by writing a skript where I modify the ${selected_resource_loc} and included it via external tools in eclipse.
I'm looking for a way to access all the Build properties defined while executing MSBuild. I have a configuration file. I want to modify the Properties in the configuration file and copy it to a new location. Is there a way to do it?
If you run the build with /verbosity:detailed or /verbosity:diagnostic you will get very detailed output of all the properties that was used during your build process. However I suspect you want to change a config type file after/before you copy the builded files to another location? In that case there is several mechanismes to do that, what we have found to work pretty good, is the MSBuildCommunity tasks that can be found here on code plex
If you would like to see some samples of this I would be glad to post them