title

GetOutputFileName Task

description

Use the MSBuild GetOutputFileName helper task to specify output file name options for cl.exe and other tools.

ms.date

03/10/2019

ms.topic

reference

f1_keywords

vc.task.getoutputfilename

dev_langs

C++

helpviewer_keywords

MSBuild (C++), GetOutputFileName task

GetOutputFileName task (MSBuild (C++))

author

ghogen

ms.author

ghogen

GetOutputFileName task

Helper task to get output file name for cl and other tools, which allow specifying only output directory or full file name or nothing.

Parameters

The following table describes the parameters of the GetOutputFileName task.

Parameter	Description
OutputExtension	Required string parameter.
OutputFile	Optional string output parameter.
OutputPath	Optional string parameter.
SourceFile	Required string parameter.