Hello VM Forum.

I am trying to do a command line build of a VC2015 project, however, the build fails to find include files associated with the project.

After some experimentation it seems the issue occurs only when doing a rebuild (or a build after the project has been cleaned) and that the IDE level settings (e.g. do not deep search includes) are not being used. I build from VC2015 using the "No IDE" option and everything works fine there.

The solution has multiple projects within it and a shared project as well for some common components. I want to build any one or all of them from the command line.

I tried changing the IDE path to the path to my VC2015 install and got a different error: 

The operation failed with exception: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index

The latest comamnd line attempted is:

.\VMBuild.exe -builder.verbose=true -builder.build=true -builder.rebuild=true -builder.upload=false -builder.board_id=konekt_dash -builder.project_path="F:\Src\MySolution\Proj1.vcxproj" -builder.output_directory="F:\Src\MySolution\builds" -builder.ide_path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE"

I also tried building using the SLN file (with the default IDE location) which got a bit further then failed with the message:

Error linking for board Dash
End
F:\Src\MySolution\core.a(main.cpp.o):In function main
\arduino\main.cpp:undefined reference to setup
\arduino\main.cpp:undefined reference to loop

Any thoughts on how to get this working?

Thanks,
tvcjr

Thanks for the reply.

Shared core option was off. The full list of complier options is as follows:

[ ] Deep Search for Libraries
[ ] Local Files Override Library Files 
[x] Verbose
[x] High Speed Parallel Builds
[x] Warnings for Project
[ ] Warnings for Libraries
[ ] Warnings for Core
[x] Stop on Error
[ ] Show Build Folder
[x] Show Build Properties
[ ] Shared Cache for Cores
[ ] Always Copt To Intermediate
[x] Always Export Binary


I set the build path back to the proper Arduino install location for my environment...

.\VMBuild.exe -builder.verbose=true -builder.build=true -builder.rebuild=true -builder.upload=false -builder.board_id=konekt_dash -builder.project_path="F:\Src\MySolution\Proj1.vcxproj" -builder.output_directory="F:\Src\MySolution\builds" -builder.ide_path="F:\Arduino"

...the build still cannot find include files (i.e. No such file or directory.) The include file is part of the shared code project within the solution.

When the command line build executes, it does a deep search for includes even though that option is not selected which is why I thought the IDE level settings were not being used/found.
Also any configuration or project defines (and I assume any settings on the project properties page) are also not used/found.

Building by specifying the solution file fails as before (at the link phase).

Which is preferred, specifiying the SLN file or the specific VCXPROJ files within the SLN?

Thanks for the info I will look into it