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Prevent a VS solution's project from being built by Appveyor

The .sln file in my GitHub repository has two projects -- a class library project, and a tests project. I only want AppVeyor to build the library project, because the tests project requires the Microsoft Access database engine to be installed.

I am using appveyor.yaml.

How can I do this?

Solution

  • There are a number of possible options here.

    To disable tests, set the following in appveyor.yml:

    tests: off

    Or create a special build configuration (via the Visual Studio Configuration Manager...), say ReleaseCI, and specify the configuration in appveyor.yml:

    configuration: ReleaseCI

    Another option is to create multiple solution files; the UI for switching solutions is simpler (Solution Explorer -> Switch views...) than the UI for switching build configurations. To specify which .sln file should be passed to MSBuild:

    build:
    project: MySolution.sln