Building VisualGDB Makefile projects with Team Foundation Server

This tutorial shows how to build non-MSBuild VisualGDB projects using Team Foundation Server. In this mode you don’t need a separate Visual Studio installation on your build server (although you still need a separate license of VisualGDB if you want to make use of the VisualGDB logic for uploading sources, synchronizing settings and running custom actions).

If you haven’t configured TFS yet, we recommend following our basic TFS integration tutorial first. In this tutorial we will use 2 machines: server that will run the TFS build agent and client that will be used for editing the projects in Visual Studio.

1. Install TFS on the server and configure the build agent. Copy the contents of the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sysprogs\VisualGDB folder on the client to an arbitrary location on the server. Then run VisualGDB.exe /about to enter your license details or VisualGDB.exe /intro to start a trial on the build server: