Can we use nant to build .sln files in C #?

Question

Is it possible to use nant to build .sln files in C #?

Answer 1

The easiest approach in my experience is to use NAnt to invoke MSBuild and get MSBuild to create the solution file itself. An example is the Protocol Buffer File file .

I am using NAntContrib which has msbuild task:

 <property name="nantcontrib-dir" value="${path::combine(nant::get-base-directory(), '../../NAntContrib')}" overwrite="false" /> <loadtasks assembly= "${path::combine(nantcontrib-dir, 'bin/NAnt.Contrib.Tasks.dll')}" /> ... <target name="build" description="Builds all C# code"> <msbuild project="${src}/ProtocolBuffers.sln"> <property name="Configuration" value="${build-configuration}" /> </msbuild> </target> 

Answer 2

msbuild is a task that can either simply build your solution or execute the entire msbuild script file:

 <target name="compile"> <msbuild project="xxx.sln"> <arg value="/property:Configuration=release" /> <arg value="/t:Rebuild" /> </msbuild> </target> 

Answer 3

You can call msbuild as your main task.

Answer 4

solution task can help.

Answer 5

You can use the solution task, although this does not support VS2008 solutions outside of nant beta versions. It happens.