Exclude projects from build on Pre-Build event

It appeared after request from Q/A (related issue)

So if you want activate or deactivate any projects when build is started… well it's possible with vsSolutionBuildEvent

How ?

This feature is part of SBE-Scripts (controlled by BuildComponent). Therefore you should activate support of this engine.

Ok, it's simply…

You should use IsBuildable property for get/set value of selected project(s).

#[Build projects.find("name").IsBuildable = true|false|1|0]

#[Build projects.find("name").IsBuildable]

Where name is project name in your solution, for example:

  • "bzip2.vcxproj"
  • "Zenlib\ZenLib.vcxproj"

etc.

Examples

  • Set true value if next condition also has true
#[( ($(isAllow) && $(Configuration) === "Debug") || $(sysc) == -1 ) {
    #[Build projects.find("bzip2.vcxproj").IsBuildable = false]
}]
  • Set value from external utility:
#[Build projects.find("bzip2.vcxproj").IsBuildable = #[File sout("vt.exe", "-s -e bzip", 60)]]
  • Status for Release_notes.txt
#[var pBzip = #[Build projects.find("bzip2.vcxproj").IsBuildable]]
...
#[File write("#[var odir]/Release_notes.txt"):This assembled from:
...
* Build number:     #[var revBuild];
* Branch Sha1:      #[var branchSha1];
* bzip2 status:     #[var pBzip];
...
]
  • Manage for other projects:
#[(#[Build projects.find("boost-regex.vcxproj").IsBuildable])
{
    #[Build projects.find("client.vcxproj").IsBuildable = true]
    #[Build projects.find("MediaInfoLib.vcxproj").IsBuildable = false]
    #[Build projects.find("zlib.vcxproj").IsBuildable = true]
}
else {
    #[Build projects.find("bzip2.vcxproj").IsBuildable = true]
}]

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