Windows XP goes out of support next year so my work is finally upgrading to windows 7. This has provided the impetus to port our VS6.0 project to VS2010 as VS6.0 will not install on Windows 7.
The port was fairly uneventful, just a few minor fixes because C++ wasn't standardized back in 98 when VS6.0 was released, so the code would not compile without a few tweaks.
The project is fairly large and takes 30 mins to build via Atlassian Bamboo build server.
Imagine my dismay when I found the VS2010 version of the project took 90 mins!!! 15 years of compiler progress and they have managed to slow it down to one third of the speed!
So, I thought.... MSBuild has support for parallel builds - lets give that a crack! Unfortunately, it failed to build. After wasting a day I found
this.
Apparently MSBuild 4.0 has a bug where it doesn't respect the project dependencies, so it gets the build order wrong.
Anyway, if you are using Bamboo with VS2010, use the DEVENV.EXE task for building projects, not MSBuild - it's broken!
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