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0015931

CMake

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2016-01-21 13:26

2016-06-10 14:31

Reporter

Luis Roalter

Assigned To

Kitware Robot

Priority

normal

Severity

feature

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

moved

Platform

MSVC

Windows

OS Version

Product Version

CMake 3.4.2

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0015931: Change the StartUp-Solution by Value

Description

CMake always tries to set ALL_BUILD in Visual Studio Projects as the first project in the Solution file. This is okay if I want to build all the content.
But sometimes it would be great to change this behavior to a custom project as well.

The point is: Pressing F5 in Studio (just run the Application) won't work. Sure, you can setup the startup project manually. But it would be gread to set it per-project (means per solution).

I've patched it to use CMAKE_STARTUP_SOLUTION. This exchanges the string "ALL_BUILD" in the comparison of the project if possible. It would be even better to make something like

set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY STARTUP_APPLICATION MainWindow). This should only scope till the next project().

Steps To Reproduce

Just press F5 on a Studio-runnable application.

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0015578

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Target property that sets Startup Project in MSVC

Notes
(0040296) Brad King (manager) 2016-01-21 13:51	For reference, there is a related change here: VS: Refactor target ordering logic https://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=03bfe71a [^] It still hard-codes the "ALL_BUILD" name, just in a different place than it used to.

(0040568) Eric Wing (reporter) 2016-02-28 00:44	I want something like this. And also for Xcode. The number one piece of confusion I'm getting from people is they can't figure out how to build a product from the generated CMake project. People understand enough and use VS/Xcode enough to know the Run button is supposed to build+run your program. CMake's ALL_BUILD goes against the standard workflow and intuition. And this makes for a poor first-time user-experience with CMake.

(0042919) Kitware Robot (administrator) 2016-06-10 14:29	Resolving issue as `moved`. This issue tracker is no longer used. Further discussion of this issue may take place in the current CMake Issues page linked in the banner at the top of this page.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2016-01-21 13:26	Luis Roalter	New Issue
2016-01-21 13:51	Brad King	Note Added: 0040296
2016-02-28 00:44	Eric Wing	Note Added: 0040568
2016-03-15 16:54	Nils Gladitz	Relationship added	duplicate of 0015578
2016-06-10 14:29	Kitware Robot	Note Added: 0042919
2016-06-10 14:29	Kitware Robot	Status	new => resolved
2016-06-10 14:29	Kitware Robot	Resolution	open => moved
2016-06-10 14:29	Kitware Robot	Assigned To	=> Kitware Robot
2016-06-10 14:31	Kitware Robot	Status	resolved => closed