[cmake-developers] [CMake 0011311]: Visual Studio 2008 MIDL and cmake 2.8.2

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=11311 
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Reported By:                Julian Lim
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   11311
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2010-10-13 12:49 EDT
Last Modified:              2010-10-13 12:49 EDT
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Summary:                    Visual Studio 2008 MIDL and cmake 2.8.2
Description: 
I'm submitting a patch for 2.8.2 cmake which consist of a patch (described
in issue http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=8165) that is designed cmake 2.8
AND 3 more items that we
worked on.

We are working on Visual Studio 2008 COM project which has IDL files and
need MIDL to generate the .TLB and header and source files, and we faced
with 2 major issues.     

(1) Looking at 2.8.2 code, the patch from
http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=8165 hasn’t been applied. 
After we manually apply it, got us a step forward and now we faced with
issue http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=2.

http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=8165

1>------ Build started: Project: vbabc, Configuration: Release Win32
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1>Creating Type Library...
1>midl : command line warning MIDL1009 : unknown argument ignored
"..\..\..\..\source\libvbabc\vbabc.idl"
1>Processing Release\""
1>Release""
1>c1 : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Release""': Invalid
argument
1>midl : command line error MIDL1003 : error returned by the C
preprocessor (2)
1>Build log was saved at
"file://c:\source\build\msvc\vc\libvbabc\vbabc.dir\Release\BuildLog.htm"
1>vbabc - 2 error(s), 1 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped
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(2)	After issue http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=1 resolved, we could
finally MIDL tools ran against IDL
files.  There were 2 issues we face when issue
http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=1 is resolved.  

a. The .TLB files are generated inside build directory (example,
vbabc.dir/Release) but Visual Studio is still looking for it in the CMAKE
Source directory.  Yes, we do want these files to be generated in
vbabc.dir/Release which is the object directory because this will enable us
to build from multiple processes and do not interfere with each build.
b. The generated headers is not in any Include path that when our source
include it an error occurs.
c. For Linker, DebugInformation is YES for Release version.

The patch I'm submitting face all these issues in 2.8.2.

-Julian Lim
Tradebot Systems


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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2010-10-13 12:49 Julian Lim     New Issue                                    
2010-10-13 12:49 Julian Lim     File Added:
cmLocalVisualStudio7Generator.cxx.2.8.2.patch                    
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