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I have to set up a build configuration (Teamcity 7.1) for some old Visual Studio 6 C projects. I am not common with C/C++ programs and their environment and have absolutely no idea how to configure the build steps for this kind of projects. I installed the cmake plugin on Teamcity server and agent and tried to set up a GNUMake configuration with pointing the "Make program path" to the nmake.exe from the Visual Studio 6 installation. The build actually starts, but crashes with the following error:

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance-Dienstprogramm: Version 6.00.9782.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
NMAKE : fatal error U1065: invalid option '-'
Stop.

I am not passing any command line parameters in. As far as i have found out it seems to be a problem with the nmake/make combination and can be fixed with prefixing the nmake call with env -u MAKE -u MAKEFLAGS nmake.exe /a /l. Unfortunately that doesn't work either - or maybe i'm doing it wrong.

Does anyone have experience with Visual Studio 6 and Teamcity? Is there any advice how i can set up a proper build step?

Kind regards, Daniela

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From what you stated, you have Visual Studio 6 installed on the build agent. Therefore I think the easiest way is to just use the TeamCity "Command Line" build step and run msdev to build the project.

MSDN has documentation on the command line parameters for msdev, but here is an example:

msdev MyProject.dsp /MAKE "MyProject – Win32 Debug" /REBUILD
Jonathon Rossi
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