How to build some project configurations with msbuild

Question

The gtest's msvc directory has the gtest project file, and opening it with Visual Studio enables me to select the build out of 8 configurations(gtest/gtest_main/gtest_prod_test/gtest_unittest x release/debug) with Batch Build.

How can I do the same thing with msbuild tool? For example, how can I tell msbuild to build gtest/Debug or gtest_unittest/Release?

Answer 1

MSBuild projectfile /property:Configuration=Debug

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171452%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

Answer 2

Kyle Alons's answer works fine. When I run solution file that has four projects, it generates the release version of each project.

msbuild gtest-md.sln /property:Configuration=Release

I could run each project as follows, but the output names are based on solution name, so I need to modify to get correct results.

msbuild gtest-md.vcxproj /property:Configuration=Release

The solution was to specify target as follows.

msbuild gtest-md.sln /target:gtest-md /property:Configuration=Release