Hi,
I want to BUILD a VC8 soultion from command-line by devenv. I have a path to the solution like
set SOL_PATH="C:\myStuffs\myproject\win\build"

and then I am doing a PUSHD to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE"

now when i say
devenv %SOL_PATH%\a.sln /build "Debug"
devenv cannot find path to a.sln.

This is because %SOL_PATH%\a.sln evaluates to "C:\myStuffs\myproject\win\build"\a.sln which devenv doesnt understand.

However if I write
devenv "C:\myStuffs\myproject\win\build\a.sln" /build "Debug"
it works fine.

I am looking for a solution to concatenate the path with the filename, and such that "C:\myStuffs\myproject\win\build"\ + a.sln becomes
"C:\myStuffs\myproject\win\build\a.sln". In other words, the filename comes inside the QUOTES too.

Please help.
thanks,
-manirupIt might be easier to use the old 8.3 notation:

set SOL_PATH=C:\myStuffs\myproj~1\win\build

8-)Thanks for the suggestion. But I dont know what the directory name would be. I dont want the path to be hard coded. xxxxx~1 does not suffice because it can be ~2 or ~3 and so on... and you cannot assure that ~1 will work fine..
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It might be easier to use the old 8.3 notation:

set SOL_PATH=C:\myStuffs\myproj~1\win\build

8-)

You can discover for yourself the correct name by running a directory list on the parent directory:

dir /x C:\myStuffs

OR

Use your original method but append the quotes on the program call:

set SOL_PATH=C:\myStuffs\myproject\win\build
devenv "%SOL_PATH%\a.sln" /build "Debug"

8-)