Delphi MSBuild Build Configurations From Command Line

31
votes

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?

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Count me in for the suggested rework too. – Scott W
I reworked this into a question and answer. – Craig Stuntz

3 Answers

28
votes

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

Copied from original "question"; note community wiki.

10
votes

I tried this with Delphi XE. It didn't work until I figured out I needed to set the environment variables referenced by the .dproj file:

SET BDS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\8.0
SET BDSBIN=C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\8.0\bin
SET BDSAPPDATABASEDIR=BDS
msbuild myproject.dproj /target:Build /p:config=Release
3
votes

I've had the same problem and found the solution:

  1. Write /p:config instead of /p:configuration
  2. Write "Release Build" or "Debug Build" (in double quotes) instead of Release or Debug

It did it for me.