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I just had the pleasure to do exactly that in a batch file. Some poking around technet gave me the following:
%date:~-4,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~-7,2%
This will create an ISO-style date format out of a date in US locale settings.
If you’re looking for a quick introduction to Boost.Test that covers the main features you’re likely to use, I would recommend looking at this blog post:
a little madness » Blog Archive » C++ Unit Testing With Boost.Test
See here: Emacs development
Time to check if the Windows builds are already available, methinks.
For those who are using Visual Studio 2010, the service pack has now been officially released:
Edit: The download like doesn’t seem to work for me yet, given that it’s only gone General Availability today it might be worth checking back a little later.
Edit again – we have a general availability download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=75568aa6-8107-475d-948a-ef22627e57a5&displaylang=en
Check if you’re seeing the following output in the build pane:
InitializeBuildStatus:
Creating ".unsuccessfulbuild" because "AlwaysCreate" was specified.
I’ve just fixed a bunch of these errors in one of our solutions here and all of these were caused by one of two issues:
In order to find out if there are missing files that trigger the perma-rebuild, you’ll also have to enable Visual Studio’s debug output as described in this stackoverflow answer.
Yes, it’s one of those “note to self” posts, but I keep forgetting how to do it.
As the first step, you run dumpbin /EXPORTS and redirect the output into a file because the utility that unmangles the names (undname.exe) doesn’t appear to be able to take piped input via stdin. Then, run undname <filename>, with <filename> being the file that contains the exported symbols.
At least that way the symbols become mostly readable.