[Quickfix-developers] Problems with xcopy Visual Studio post-build event

[John D. <joh...@ch...>]

Hi,

If I just get the QuickFIX code clean from CVS and build it in Visual Studio
7.1, the post-build event of the quickfix project fails. I get a ton of
these errors:

Does include\quickfix specify a file name or directory name on the target (F
= file, D = directory)?

To fix it, I had to add the /I switch to the command. According to the xcopy
help for /I, "If destination does not exist and copying more than one file,
assumes that destination must be a directory." It seems a little strange
that this error exists. Am I the only one with this problem?



My second problem is that the EXCLUDE portion of the command seems to cause
some random header files to not be copied over.

The problem is caused by the 'test' line in the EXCLUDE file. Some header
files contain 'test' as part of their name. For example,
QuoTESTatusReport.h. Thus QuoteStatusReport.h is not copied. Again, from the
xcopy help:

"Specifies a list of files containing strings.  Each string should be in a
separate line in the files.  When any of the strings match any part of the
absolute path of the file to be copied, that file will be excluded from
being copied.  For example, specifying a string like \obj\ or .obj will
exclude all files underneath the directory obj or all files with the .obj
extension respectively."

Thus changing "echo test > EXCLUDE" in the post-build event to "echo \test\
> EXCLUDE" fixed the problem.



And finally, would it not be nicer to just wrap the post-build event in a
batch file? It would make it easier to debug problems (you wouldn't have to
go through a build to run it again), and easier to make changes (you
wouldn't have to do it once for debug and once for release).

Here is my final post-build event:

echo \test\ > EXCLUDE
echo stdafx.h >> EXCLUDE
xcopy src\C++\*.h /S/Y/I /EXCLUDE:EXCLUDE include\quickfix
del /F EXCLUDE

Can this change be added to CVS? Better yet, can this be put in a batch file
and added to CVS?
--
John