Errors when building Visual Studio projects in Visual Build but not the VS IDE

[kinook]

It is Visual Studio (msbuild/devenv) that actually performs the building of a Visual Studio solution or project (and is reporting the error), not Visual Build itself. Building a VS project from the command-line is not identical to building in the VS IDE. If building via MSBuild does not work, try using devenv (enter devenv in the Override field on the Options tab (http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Manual/vsnetoptionstab.htm)), as this will be closer to what the IDE does when building (and MSBuild is not able to build solutions containing Setup and Deployment projects). Even then, we have heard of situations where building from the command-line doesn't work even when building in the IDE does. You can check the Log the command-line checkbox on the Advanced tab, rebuild the step, and provide the msbuild/devenv command to MS when submitting a support incident.

Alternatively, to build solutions containing C++ projects with MSBuild, the Visual Studio environment matching the solution file needs to be initialized by either

1) starting Visual Build (start visbuildpro) from a Visual Studio Command Prompt

or

2) running the VS environment batch file from the Command to run before main command field on the Advanced tab of the Make VS action:

VS 2008:
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86

VS 2010:
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86

VS 2012:
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f2ccy3wt%28v=vs.110%29.aspx