Using IncrediBuild from the Visual Studio 6.0 IDE

IncrediBuild is fully integrated into the Visual Studio 6.0 development environment. Builds can be run, stopped and reviewed using the IncrediBuild menu and toolbar commands, as well as their equivalent keyboard shortcuts. By default, IncrediBuild will only distribute execution of C/C++ compilation tasks and MIDL tasks. To learn about distributing custom build steps and build events, see this section.

IncrediBuild Operations

Following is a description of operations available from within the Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 IDE:

Building the current project

To start building a project, first make sure the target project is the active project and that the desired configuration is selected. Next, choose either Build (for an incremental build) or Rebuild (to clean all intermediate and output files before building) from the "IncrediBuild" menu. This will open up the Build Monitor as a docked window, displaying the new build's output and progress.
Note that selecting Build Active Project Only or Rebuild Active Project Only will perform a build operation on the active project alone, ignoring its sub-projects.

Cleaning the current project's intermediate and output files

IncrediBuild provides its own Clean operation, which also cleans intermediate files created by IncrediBuild during builds, so it is generally recommended to use this instead of MSVC's Clean operation. To clean the current project's intermediate and output files, select the Clean command from the IncrediBuild menu.
Note that by selecting Clean Active Project Only you can clean only the active project's folders, ignoring its sub-projects.

Stopping a build in progress

IncrediBuild's operation can be halted at any time during the build by selecting Stop Build from the IncrediBuild menu. This operation will also stop a currently running MSVC build.

Batch operations

All of the above operations can be performed on a group of configurations in the current workspace, in a manner similar to MSVC's Batch Build command. To perform a batch operation, select Batch Build... from the IncrediBuild menu. The Batch Build dialog will open:

Select one or more project configurations by clicking on the checkboxes to the left of the configuration names. Next, click any of the action buttons (Build, Rebuild and Clean) to perform the operation on all of the selected configurations. A detailed reference of the Batch Build dialog's options is available here.

Reviewing build results

To display the Build Monitor for the currently running build or for the last build executed by IncrediBuild, choose Open Build Monitor from the IncrediBuild menu.

Modifying IncrediBuild Agent settings

The IncrediBuild Agent Settings dialog can be accessed using the Settings... menu command.

Toolbar and Keyboard Shortcuts

IncrediBuild operations can be activated from the IncrediBuild toolbar as well as from the keyboard. Below is a summary of equivalent commands, toolbar icons and keyboard shortcuts (when available):

Notes:

By default, the toolbar will only contain the Build, Batch Build and Stop Build commands. To add additional IncrediBuild commands to the toolbar, refer to the section on Customizing MSVC Integration.
It is possible to configure MSVC's default keyboard shortcuts for build and compile operations to run IncrediBuild's operations. For further details, refer to the section on Customizing MSVC Integration.

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