Quick Script for Building .sln Files With Configurations

Repeatedly typing out msbuild command lines with configuration switches (release, debug) and clean/regular, FTL.

Here’s a quick Ruby script to let you specify –d, –r, –c for debug, release, and clean, respectively. –d and –r are mutually exclusive, but you need one.

Oh! the joy of optparse. Dunno how many times I’ve written a command line parser for just this sort of use case. Love how well this works OOB.

require 'optparse'

def process_command_args

    $options = {}

    opts = OptionParser.new 

    opts.banner = "Usage: build [options]"

    opts.on( "-r", "--release", "release configuration" ) do

        $options[:releaseconfig] = true

    end

    opts.on( "-d", "--debug", "debug config" ) do

        $options[:debugconfig] = true

    end

    opts.on( "-c", "--clean", "clean build" ) do

        $options[:clean] = true

    end

    opts.on("-h", "--help", "Display this screen") do

        puts opts

        exit

    end

    opts.parse(ARGV)    

    if ($options[:releaseconfig].nil? && $options[:debugconfig].nil?)

        puts "Red pill or blue, your choice. Try -d or -r.ac"

        puts opts

        exit

    end

    if ($options[:releaseconfig] && $options[:debugconfig])

        puts "Make up your mind: release OR debug, not both"

        puts opts

        exit

    end

end

def do_the_work

    if $options[:releaseconfig]

        $config= "release"         

    end

    if $options[:debugconfig]

        $config = "debug"         

    end

    $sln = Dir.glob("*.sln")

    if ($sln.length > 1)

        puts "More than one .sln file here. Can't figure it out, bailing."

        exit

    end

    $command = "msbuild " + $sln[0] + " /p:configuration=" + $config 

    if $options[:clean]

        $command += " /t:clean"

    end

    system($command)

end

process_command_args()

do_the_work()