FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 09:25:22 -0800, "Frank M. Kromann"
<frank AT kromann.info> wrote:
> > Is MSVC's build system really so
> > brain dead that it can't handle such a task?
> 
> No. MSVC can handle custom builds calling all sorts of external
> commands, including copy.

Right, it's just not very obvious.  

>From memory, in Project|Settings, go to the last two tabs.  They are
something like "pre-build script" and "post-build script".  Enter there
any command or .CMD file you want executed.  Something along these lines
might work:

<snip>
set src=include
set tgt=src\win32

rem     Rename the files while copying to a temporary place
xcopy   %src%\*.h.in  %tgt%\tmp\*.

rem     Use "replace" to avoid overwriting targets 
rem     that were updated manually.

rename  %tgt%\tmp\*.h  %tgt%

rem     Cleanup
del     %tgt%\tmp\*.h
rmdir   %tgt%\tmp 2> NUL:

rem feedback:
dir /s/b %tgt%\..\*.h
</snip>

I'm not making this up. (!)

Let's not have copies of files in the source tree.  :-)

--jkl