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Zev Spitz
Zev Spitz

Reputation: 15375

Prevent a VS solution's project from being built by Appveyor

The .sln file in my GitHub repository has two projects -- a class library project, and a tests project. I only want AppVeyor to build the library project, because the tests project requires the Microsoft Access database engine to be installed.

I am using appveyor.yaml.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 127

Answers (2)

Zev Spitz
Zev Spitz

Reputation: 15375

There are a number of possible options here.

To disable tests, set the following in appveyor.yml:

tests: off

Or create a special build configuration (via the Visual Studio Configuration Manager...), say ReleaseCI, and specify the configuration in appveyor.yml:

configuration: ReleaseCI

Another option is to create multiple solution files; the UI for switching solutions is simpler (Solution Explorer -> Switch views...) than the UI for switching build configurations. To specify which .sln file should be passed to MSBuild:

build:
    project: MySolution.sln

Upvotes: 0

britzkopf
britzkopf

Reputation: 168

You could switch from automatic msbuild mode to script mode, by adding a build_script section to your yaml config file. This might look something like this...


build_script:
  - msbuild StringAsSql/StringAsSql.csproj /logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll"

It's the same command AppVeyor would run automatically on your solution file.

Upvotes: 1

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