using command line compiler

[kleinma]

I want to use the VB6 command line compiler to compile a project I have that I need to compile 3 times with different conditional compilation arguments.

I got the command line compiler to work, but if I call it 3 times in a row, it only builds the first one and the second 2 fail because its still compiling the first one.

What method can I use to determine when the first compilation is done, so that the code can then call the second, and then the third.

[RobDog888]

How about creating a small simple vb program to do a
CreateProcessA with a WaitForSingleObject API calls in a loop
changing the compilation argument each time???

[kleinma]

yeah i thought about using waitforsingleobject only problem is (and I will test it), I think when u launch VB6 with command line compile arguments, it calls C2.exe which is the actual compiler...

[RobDog888]

How about shellexecute CMD.exe with the /K parameter and your
commandline arguments. Then waitforsingleobject or something
similar to get around vb using the c2.exe? Kind of fool vb into
thinking it is being executed from the command line.

HTH

[kleinma]

yeah i might have to use a round about way like that.

I also was thinking maybe i could try checking running processes using a timer to see when C2 finishes and closes, then call the next one

[RobDog888]

That is a good idea. Probably easier to check for C2.exe still running.

[brucevde]

If you have the budget for it, here is a good product.

Visual Make

[kleinma]

Originally posted by brucevde
If you have the budget for it, here is a good product.

Visual Make

looks cool, but doing this is to just save me time from compiling my app 3 times... Im not lazy enough to spend 500 bucks to avoid it

[jpritchard]

hi

U sure wait for single wont work....

I get 3 exes in my c:\ dir when I do this - it shelling a compile 3 times

ps - my bit is the bottom function - the rest if the code was got from this forum (probably josht but I cannot remember who - sorry)

cheers AJP

(sorry if I have gone barking mad and misunderstood.. )

("setkeys" was the name of project I was compiling..)