Build/Visual Studio

How to build suite3270 (b3270, pr3287, s3270, wc3270 and x3270if) with Microsoft Visual Studio.

Visual Studio GUI
The Visual Studio solution is called suite3270.sln in the VisualStudio folder. There are individual projects for each of the programs and components.

Visual Studio command line
The following step only needs to be done once, to to get the libexpat source. New in 4.2 git submodule update --init''' Open a Visual Studio command prompt. Switch to the VisualStudio directory in the suite3270 source tree, and type: msbuild

The usual msbuild options are available, such as,   (which can specify Debug or Release) and   (which can specify Win32 or x64). For example: msbuild /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64