Re: [Boost-cmake] Parallel Builds on Windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Parallel Builds on Windows
From: Bill Hoffman (bill.hoffman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-09 08:19:50

Ingo Albrecht wrote:

>> It is totally automated.  You can run devenv /build on the command 
>> line or use msbuild, they do not pop up a gui. ctest uses devenv 
>> /build.  All of this is already automated by ctest.   The question is 
>> about log scrapping, which needs to be done.  However, vs does create 
>> html logs during the build, and you should be able to use them with 
>> not too much effort.
> This is no longer true. Since VS2005, there is another tool called vcbuild
> that does not only emit messages on its stdout but can also dump them
> into a good old text file. As I already noted earlier, it can also prefix
> lines with specific severity levels with strings provided on the command
> line.
> 
> It even has an advantage over make in that it can separate messages
> from parallel jobs correctly.
> 
> This tool is also available in the free Express Edition.
> 
I will look into using vcbuild, and parsing the output.  I guess since 
we had devenv /build working, I did not figure vcbuild would have 
anything extra to add, sounds like it might.

-Bill