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Building qXL

System requirements

The following are required to build qXL:

The qXL solution is compatible with Visual Studio 2010.

Note:

Visual Studio Express does not support extensions thus the ExcelAddInDeploy project (WIX installer) cannot be opened.

Build steps

Make sure that the msbuild.exe is on system PATH. You can extend PATH with following command:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319

To fully rebuild the solution and create the installer, execute:

msbuild qXL.sln /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release

The installer is then built to the ExcelAddInDeploy\bin\Release folder.

Note:

Make sure that installer is not built in the Debug configuration.

Version stamping

The version number in AssemblyInfo and installer is generated upon build based on environmental variables:

  • VERSION_MAJOR,
  • VERSION_MINOR,
  • VERSION_REVISION,
  • VERSION_BUILD.

Version number follows the pattern VERSION_MAJOR.VERSION_MINOR.VERSION_REVISION.VERSION_BUILD, where each version element is represented as 16 bit integer.

In addition the qXL name can be post-fixed if the VERSION_TYPE. This can be used to create BETA and RC flavours of build.

Troubleshooting

If a build is not automatically fetching the dependencies, then issuing the command

nuget install packages.config -o packages

on the command line in the qXL root directory could be used to manually fetch those dependencies.