How to force pre-build event to occur - Programmer
This is a discussion on How to force pre-build event to occur - Programmer ; I am using Visual Studio 2005 and have a script that needs to execute
prior to doing a build. This script generates files that are compiled
in as resources, so it's important that the script runs before
resources are compiled.
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How to force pre-build event to occur
I am using Visual Studio 2005 and have a script that needs to execute
prior to doing a build. This script generates files that are compiled
in as resources, so it's important that the script runs before
resources are compiled.
I have tried setting the script to run as a "pre-build event".
Unfortunately, the pre-build event does not run if Visual Studio
thinks all my project files are up to date. Is there a way to force
this step to always occur?
I also tried setting it as a "Custom Build Step". In this case, it
always executes my script (even if all files are up to date), but only
after the resources have been compiled. This appears to be different
than the "Custom Build Tool" option in the tool execution order
dialog, as the custom build step executes even when "Custom Build
Tool" is unchecked.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Matt
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Re: How to force pre-build event to occur
Well, I'll answer my own question. 
It turns out the custom build step specified under project settings
always runs after everything else, as I was noticing. But, you can
specify a custom build step for a particular file in your project.
This custom build step will run before the other stuff. So, in my
case I was able to specify a custom build step for my resource.h file
which runs my script, and it appears this always runs before compiling
the resources, regardless of whether files are up-to-date or not.
Very hacky, but it works!
--Matt
