Manish Agarwal

tips for converting build script of managed C++ project to for msbuild

• While converting the sources and makefile.inc to .nativeproj file, if you get following error: - 

            Project file error : The TargetType NOTARGET in the project [myproject.nativeproj] is not known.

change value of TargetType property from "NoTarget" to "Publish".

• If your project is not compiling any source files. The build process only copy files to output folder. Value of the TargetType property should be "Copy" instead of "NoTarget".  For example

<PropertyGroup>
                 <OutputPath>$(DestinationDirectory)</OutputPath>
                <TargetType>COPY</TargetType>
</PropertyGroup>     

<!-- Specify files to copy. For each file you want to copy define the corresponding item in itemgroup-->

<ItemGroup>
              <DataFile Include="FileToCopy.txt" />             
              <DataFile Include="FileToCopyinSubFolder.txt">
                  <SubFolder>SubFolder\</SubFolder> 
              </DataFile>
</ItemGroup>