Using AXBuild Command for Parallel Compilation of AOS in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

We can compile AOS direct from the development environment by Right click on AOS then compile, but it usually takes up to 4 to 6 hours depending upon your systems support. The direct method of compiling AOS takes much longer time, which may paralyze your work for hours.

So here comes a trick to compile AOS much faster than ever by AXBuild command which hardly takes up to 15 to 17 mins to compile the AOS. Before running the command, the following are the key steps to follow:

Step 1 - Go to Windows Search, type Services. Click on Service. Go to Microsoft Dynamics AX Object Service and stop the Dynamic AX Object service for a while before running the command.

Step 2 - Go to windows search, type cmd and open it as an administrator

Step 3 - Change your location to the Microsoft Dynamics AX bin folder. Just copy and paste below comment in cmd.

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Server\TAVSP\bin"

Step 4 - Enter the below command to run a full compile on AOT in cmd

"axbuild.exe  xppcompileall  /s=01 /altbin="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Client\Bin"

Note: After this multiple cmd are open which will run in parallel to compile different parts of AOT, to increase your parallelism you can add /w=03 in above command to increase number of threads.

Step 5 - For error logo cmd will show a location where all the error are write to file.

Step 6 - Go to the file location show in the command prompt and open the respective file for your purpose.