Delphi MSBuild Build Configurations From Command Line

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ulrichb picture ulrichb · Feb 17, 2009 · Viewed 15.7k times · Source

Delphi 2009 uses build configurations. When you create a new project you have two default build configurations "Debug" and "Release".

Now I asked myself how to automate builds using MSBuild (which is supported by Delphi since version 2007).

You can start the "msbuild" command in the "RAD Studio Command Prompt" in some Delphi project directory and it will build the default build configuration (the last activated build configuration inside the Delphi IDE).

Now, I want to specify a certain (non-default) build configuration by a command line parameter.

The Delphi help asserts that the parameter is [/p:configuration=<configuration name>], which is wrong (Delphi 2009, Help Update 1)!

What is the right way?

Answer

Craig Stuntz picture Craig Stuntz · Feb 17, 2009

Now, if you want to change the build configuration you have to add the parameter
/p:config=<BUILD_CONFIG_NAME>

For example:

C:\Projects\TestDelphiApp001>msbuild /target:Build /p:config=Release

or

C:\Projects\TestDelphiApp001>msbuild /target:Build /p:config=Debug

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