msbuild-maven-plugin

Maven 3 plugin for building Visual Studio solutions and projects with msbuild.

Requirements:

• Originally tested with Visual Studio 2010 and 2012. Integration tests now updated for Visual Studio 2015.
• .NET framework v4.0 (for msbuild)

In addition to building using msbuild the plugin also supports:

• Creating a version resource from information in your POM
• Running static analysis tools:
  • CppCheck (1.61)
  • Vera++ (1.2.1)
• Generating, building and executing unit tests using CxxTest (4.2.1, don't use 4.3 due to Windows compilation issues)
• Generating configuration files for the Sonar runner to ingest source, CppCheck, Vera and CxxTest results.

Usage

For detailed usage instruction see the project Wiki at: https://github.com/andi12/msbuild-maven-plugin/wiki

The plugin is available from Maven Central see http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|a%3A%22msbuild-maven-plugin%22

This simple example shows basic setup to build from a solution file. Place the following in the <build> <plugins> section of you POM and use our 'exe' packaging.

    <plugin>
        <groupId>uk.org.raje.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>msbuild-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.1</version>
        <extensions>true</extensions>
        <configuration>
            <projectFile>hello-world.vcxproj</projectFile>
            <platforms>
                <platform>
                    <name>Win32</name>
                    <configurations>
                        <configuration>
                            <name>Release</name>
                        </configuration>
                        <configuration>
                            <name>Debug</name>
                        </configuration>
                    </configurations>
                </platform>
            </platforms>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>

Changelog

This section provides a summary of significant changes in each release. For all details see the commitlog.

1.3.1 (1-Oct-2019)

• Support .NET 2.0, don't set maxcpucount when configured value is 0

1.3.0 (29-Sep-2019)

• Minor fixes for Java 8
• Integration tests passing with Visual Studio 2015 (Community Edition)

1.2.1 (5-Nov-2013)

• Add support for a set of exclude patterns to be specified for CppCheck and Vera
• Change default Vera profile to 'default' from 'full'

1.2 (1-Nov-2013)

• Add support for Vera++ code style checker
• #8: CppCheck outputs results of --check-config to the Maven log
• #21: CPPCHECK_PATH environment variable can be used to configure the location of CppCheck
• #21: CXXTEST_HOME environment variable can be used to configure the home path for CxxTest
• #20: Test report files from CxxTest output to target/test-results instead of target/surefire-reports
• #18: Support for maven.test.failure.ignore which suppresses a build failure if tests fail.
• #18: Support for skipTests property which skips test execution.

1.1 (10-Oct-2013)

• #13: Sonar properties files now include links configured in the POM
• #6: VersionInfoMojo allows input file to be configured
• #5: VersionInfoMojo allows destination file to be specified