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Can I add a pre-build event?
May 18th, 2013 at 9:11pm
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The question says it all really.
I would like to add a command to be run before Visual Micro builds my project so that it can sort out some include files for me.

Is there a way to do this?
Just specifying it as a pre-build event in Visual Studio didn't seem to work.

I'm using VS2012 by the way, and the latest VM.

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Re: Can I add a pre-build event?
Reply #1 - May 18th, 2013 at 9:18pm
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not at the moment but I have started some work for this. I'll bump it up the list over the next month or so.

Currently I can only suggest "tools>Options>always show build folder=true" so you can CTRL+CLICK and see the build folder. 

Add a .bat file to the build folder that does what you need, add a new tool bar or menu item that runs your bat then calls the normal vs build macro, assign your own function key to your build.

Sorry, it's a bit lame!
  
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Re: Can I add a pre-build event?
Reply #2 - May 20th, 2013 at 4:13pm
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The batch file idea is working well now. Thanks.
I looked at making an add-in for it, but then I remembered why I don't use managed c++ on Windows!

In case anyone's interested, it was to run my little program to copy the include files around so that Visual Micro can find them when it compiles the Arduino code.
It's available here: https://github.com/PML369/Arduino_include_copier

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