在以下位置构建x86和x64

Question

I need to build some application in two configurations: x86 and x64 (each config has reference on some dll, which is in 32 and 64 bit versions). I want to build in some time(one build) and as result i want to have two folders,ie: 1) sln_dir/x86/ 2) sln_dir/x64/

Also x86 contains 32 bit dll and x64 contains 64 bit dll. Is it possible?And if it is possible how? Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, I'd add new project configurations, and set the build type for each configuration, along with the output directory. So you might have "Debug x86" and "Debug x64" project configurations, with output directories of "bin\\DebugX86" and "bin\\DebugX64" for example.

That's a change that can even be done within Visual Studio, unlike most of the project file hacks I perpetrate :)

That won't build configurations with a single "build project" button press, but:

• You could add a post-build step for one configuration to build the other
• If this is only relevant when you build the Wix installer, I'd just script the building of that to first build both configurations

Another Visual Studio feature you should look at is the "Batch Build" option. Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's a way of saving a batch build to perform it multiple times easily :(

Answer 2

You can:

1) Create 2 different projects with different target CPU architecture and build solution.

Solution 
      ProjectA x86 
      ProjectB x64 

Build solution. Both projects are pointing to the same source code files, naturally. There is no any source copy.

2) You can create external batch build with code like (example)

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" 
         "PATH TO SOLUTION" /Rebuild "CONFIG NAME"

Where

• "PATH TO SOLUTION" is a path to your solution file

• "CONFIG NAME" is a configuration name, like Release86 or Relese64 .

  Write there code for every confifguration you need (those configuration have to be already configured in visual studio before). And just run that batch ones.