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Wanting to build and test a bunch of Borland Delphi 6 projects that are integrated with ASP.NET services. Had been using WANT and CruiseControl for building Delphi. With TFS Build agent we can tie all together and do some testing. I am looking for guidance and direction.

One issue I see is that there is no "solution" in a Delphi project to be given to MSBuild as a '<'SolutionToBuild'>'. 

<SolutionToBuild Include="There is no such thing as a Delphi.sln">
    <Targets></Targets>
    <Properties></Properties>
</SolutionToBuild>

Also, I have references to <UsingTask> but am a little unsure how to use them. The <UsingTask> allows run custom task for Delphi command-line compile.

Your guidance would be appreciated.

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  • My bad: ...I have references to '<'UsingTask'>' but am a little unsure how to use them. Commented Nov 7, 2008 at 16:14
  • Vad 2nd paragraph. Rewrite: One issue I see is that there is no "solution" in a Delphi project to be given to MSBuild as a '<'SolutionToBuild'>'. Also, I have references to '<'UsingTask'>' but am a little unsure how to use them. The UsingTask allows run custom task for Delphi command-line compile. Commented Nov 7, 2008 at 16:39
  • @Jim Roberts: I included your second comment directly in to your question. Commented Nov 7, 2008 at 17:16

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Can you upgrade? Delphi 2006+ uses MSBuild by default. There is nothing to configure.

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D2K6+ would be wonderful. Sigh. We're headed into the VS world from D6. We're in VS 2008 and D6 on the side.
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You can use MSBuild to run the Delphi command line compiler. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure either the IDE supports command line compilation or there is a stand-alone compiler that can be run from the command line. In either case, you would need to create an <Exec> task that runs the appropriate command line build tool with the required parameters.

When you say you have "references to <UsingTask>" do you mean that you are importing an external MSBuild task? The <UsingTask> element is used to pull in a custom MSBuild task that resides in an external assembly (DLL). Once the task is imported, you use it just like you would any other built-in task.

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Yes '<'UsingTask'>' will cause the run my C# DelphiBuild.dll which then will, with parameters from the .proj in a ProcessStartInfo, be given to System.Diagnostics.Process. I've loaded my DelphiBuild.dll on the server. I think :) my problem is in my XML setup -- but I haven't got to the .dll yet.

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