| @ | Specifies a response file containing a BuildConsole command line. | Use this option when the command line for running BuildConsole is too long to specify explicitly in your script. |
| /All | Causes a solution/workspace build to continue, regardless of specific projects failing to build. | By default, Incredibuild stops the build when a project fails to build its output file. This option instructs Incredibuild to continue building the remaining project configurations, regardless of previous projects failing to build. |
| /Attach | Displays the build output of either the current or the last build. | If a build is currently running on the machine, this displays the output for the build up to that point, and continues displaying the build’s output until it ends. If no build is running, BuildConsole displays the entire build output for the last build initiated from this machine. |
| /AvoidLocal=[On/Off] | Overrides the Avoid task execution on local machine when possible option in the Agent Settings. | A value (either ON or OFF) is mandatory. |
| /Beep | Plays a sound when the build is complete. | |
| /BrowseInfo=[ON/OFF] | Forces or suppresses creation of browse information, regardless of current browse information settings. | See Agent Settings for more information regarding browse information settings. |
| /buildcacheremoteserver=[ip address:port] | Use a different build cache endpoint from the one defined in the Agent settings. The port must also be specified. For example: /buildcacheremoteserver=192.5.8.1:50222 | |
| /buildcachelocal=[ON|OFF] | Override the setting that defines if local Build Cache is enabled on this Initiator. | |
| /Cfg=<configuration> | Determines the solution configuration to be built. (With VC6 builds, this option specifies the project configuration.) | The value should be enclosed in quotes.
Several comma-separated configuration names can be specified.
The value is not case-sensitive. |
/cl_add="<options>" | Allows additional compiler options to be added to all calls to cl.exe. | Enter one or more commands separated by a space character, as they would appear in the cl.exe command line.
For example: BuildConsole MyProj /cl_add="/O2 /FA" |
/cl_rem="<options>" | Specifies compiler options that will be removed from all calls to cl.exe. | Enter one or more commands separated by a space character, as they would appear in the cl.exe command line.
For example: BuildConsole MyProj /cl_rem="/Z7 /Zd /Zi /ZI" |
| /Clean | Cleans intermediate and output files for the project(s) and all dependencies. | |
| /compile=<source file name> | When used, only the specified file(s) are built. | Value may be surrounded by quotes.
Several source filenames may be entered, separated by commas. |
| /Disable | Disables Incredibuild Agent. | |
| /DisablePdbForwarding | Disables the PDB forwarding mechanism for this build. | Only relevant for Visual Studio 2010 builds. |
| /DumpSourceFiles=filename | Writes all of the source file paths in a project/solution to a file. | <output filename> is mandatory. |
| /Enable | Enables Incredibuild Agent. | |
| /Help | Shows usage help and version information. | |
/link_add="<options>" | Allows additional linker options to be added to all calls to link.exe. | Enter one or more commands separated by a space character, as they would appear in the cl.exe command line.
For example: BuildConsole MyProj /link_add="/map:MyProj.map" |
| /Log[=filename] | Writes build output to a file. | If filename is omitted, a file named IB_<target-name>.log is created in the current directory. |
/LogLevel="<Level>" | Overrides the logging level for this build. | <Level> can be one of the following: Minimal, Basic, Intermediate, Extended, Detailed. |
| /MaxCPUS=<n> | Overrides global maximum CPUs/Cores in build setting. | |
/MaxWinVer="<Version>" | Specifies the maximal operating system required by remote Agents assigned to this build. | Agents with a newer OS are not assigned to the build. Available values are: 8.1, 10. |
/MinWinVer="<Version>" | Specifies the minimal operating system required by remote Agents assigned to this build. | Agents with an older OS are not assigned to the build. Available values are: , 8.1, and 10. |
| /Mon[=filename] | Writes a copy of the build progress (.ib_mon) file to the specified location. | If only a folder name is given, Incredibuild generates a GUID for the file name.
A message containing the location of the saved .ib_mon file is added to the end of the build output. |
/msbuildargs="/myarg1 /myarg2" | Passes additional arguments to MSBuild, when using the BuildConsole /command /usemsbuild switch. | For example:
BuildConsole dcom.sln /rebuild /cfg="debug|win32" /msbuildargs="/detailedsummary" /usemsbuild |
| /NO_DOTNET_VIRT | Disables the virtualization of .NET environment on Helper machines. | When this switch is specified in the command line, it instructs Incredibuild not to virtualize the .NET environment of the Initiator machine to the Helper machines. This switch was added to address .NET incompatibilities in a mixed OS environment. |
| /NoLogo | Suppresses the “Incredibuild” header in the build output. | |
| /NoRecurse | Builds only the specified project configurations, ignoring any sub-projects these configurations may have. | When used in conjunction with /Clean, this cleans only the specified configurations.
When used in conjunction with /Rebuild, this rebuilds only the specified configurations. |
| /NoWait | When specified, if another build initiated by this Agent is already running, BuildConsole exits with a Another build already running message. | |
| /OpenMonitor | Opens the Build Monitor window showing the build progress. | |
| /out=filename | Redirects entire command line output to a file. | |
| /pemode | Overrides and Agent’s predictive execution setting. | /pemode=0 disables predictive execution
/pemode=2 fully enables predictive execution |
| /Preset | Determines the projects/configurations that will be built using a Preset previously saved in the Batch Build dialog. | This option is useful when a complex combination of projects and configurations is required.
The /Preset command option replaces both the /cfg and the /prj options. |
| /Prj=<project name> | Determines the project to be built. | The value may be enclosed in quotes.
Running BuildConsole on an .sln file without the /pr j option will run the command on the specified solution configuration.
The ”*” and ”?” characters may be used as wildcard signs when specifying project names, to perform an operation on several projects.
Additionally, several project names may be entered, separated by commas. In this case, all projects are built using the same configuration name.
For example, to build all configurations in a solution/workspace, use the following syntax: BuildConsole MyWksp /prj="\*" |
| /QueryLicense | Displays information regarding the active license, allocated packages, and maintenance expiration date. | |
| /Rebuild | Performs a Clean operation before building the project. | Use /SETENV several times to set/override multiple variables. |
| /Reset | Clears the Agent file cache content. | |
/SETENV="<name>=<value>" | Sets or overrides environment variables for the context of the run build. | |
| /ShowAgent | Shows the Agent used to build each file. | |
| /ShowCmd | Shows for each file built, the command-line used by Incredibuild to build the file. | |
| /ShowTime | Shows the Start and Finish time for each file built. | |
| /Silent | Does not write anything to the standard output. | The default behavior is to write the build results, as seen in the Output display of the Build Monitor. |
| /Stop[=<build-id>] | Stops a currently running build on the local machine. Provide <build-id> if more than one build is running. | Returns the code 3 when a build has been stopped. If /stop was used and no build is currently running, code 2 is returned. |
| /StopOnErrors | When specified, the execution will stop as soon as an error is encountered. | |
| /StopAll | Stops all currently running builds | |
| /Title=<build title> | Specifies a custom header line which will be displayed in the beginning of the build output text. This title will also be used for the Build History and Build Monitor displays. | Value may be surrounded by quotes. |
| /UseCloudHelpers | When Cloud Helpers are enabled, this setting determines if they are used to assist in the current build. By default, the value is true. To prevent Cloud helpers from assisting in a build, set /UseCloudHelpers=false. | |
| /UseEnv | Uses PATH, INCLUDE, LIBPATH, and LIB environment variables instead of MS Visual C++ IDE paths. | To set this option globally, use the Agent Settings dialog box > Visual Studio Builds > Advanced > Use environment variables instead of IDE paths option.
If a build is initiated from a Visual Studio IDE window instantiated using the devenv.exe “/useenv” command line option, this build will always use “/useenv”. |
| /UseIDEMonitor | When BuildConsole is run from the Visual Studio IDE with this option, the integrated IDE Build Monitor displays the build progress. | |
| /UseMSBuild | Forces the usage of MSBuild. | By default, Incredibuild uses Devenv to perform the build. Using this switch, Incredibuild will use MSBuild which will enable the option to add specific MSBuild flag using the /msbuildargs as can be seen below.
This will automatically use the 64 bit MSBuild for VS 2022 and later, and the 32 bit MSBuild for earlier VS versions.
To ignore this automatic detection and manually specify which version to use, add =32 or =64 (e.g. /usemsbuild=32) |
/VsVersion="<Version>" | Forces a specific version of Visual Studio toolset to be used. | <Version> can be one of the following:
vc10 (for VS2010)
vc11 (for VS2012)
vc12 (for VS2013)
vc14 (for VS2015)
vc15 (for VS2017)
vc16 (for VS2019)
vc17 (for VS2022) |
| /Wait | If another build initiated by this Agent is currently running, waits until that build is finished and then starts the new build. This is also the default behavior. | |
| /EnableOlderMSVCSupport=True | To enable Build Cache with MSVC 2012-2015, set this flag to True. | This flag is false by default. |
