[cmake-developers] Cmake and visual studio failing to build....

[J Decker]

After considering this a bit more I went to this
C:\GENERAL\BUILD\VS10-X86\ALTANIK\CMAKEFILES  directory adn removed
Build*.  and then everything built correctly.  And BuildXXXXX did not
come back.  So maybe i've been changing cmake versions too much....
going to grab the 2.8.9 now anway.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:27 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a little difficulty figuring out why this is not building
> my projects using visual studio/msbuild.  Basically all I get is
> "========== Build: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 24 up-to-date, 0 skipped =========="
>
> I've used MSBuild with /v:diag set and in the huge log that that generates....
>
>   Outputs for C:\GENERAL\BUILD\VS10-X86\ALTANIK\CMAKEFILES\D460CDD940FC411117A7C12689E8CBDF\BUILDCORE.RULE|M:\ALTANIK\CMAKE_ALL\CMAKELISTS.TXT:
> (TaskId:43)
>         C:\GENERAL\BUILD\VS10-X86\ALTANIK\CMAKEFILES\GENERATE.STAMP (TaskId:43)
>         C:\GENERAL\BUILD\VS10-X86\ALTANIK\CMAKEFILES\BUILDCORE (TaskId:43)
>   All outputs are up-to-date. (TaskId:43)
>
> How do I make sure that 'add_custom_target' is built?  and I shouldn't
> have to ask that because the docs say....
>
> "Adds a target with the given name that executes the given commands.
> The target has no output file and is ALWAYS CONSIDERED OUT OF DATE
> even if the commands try to create a file with the name of the
> target."
>
>
>
>
> macro( BuildProject PROJECT SOLUTION PROJECT_SOURCE INSTALL_RESULT )
> #...
> add_custom_target( Build${PROJECT} ALL
>         COMMAND cmake -G "${CMAKE_GENERATOR}" ${PROJECT_SOURCE}
> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL} ${ARGN}
>         COMMAND ${BUILD_COMMAND}
>         WORKING_DIRECTORY ${BUILD}
>         ${ADD_SOURCES}
> )
> #...
> endmacro()
>
> ADD_SOURCES is the .SLN filename
> BUILD is where it's building
> BUILD_COMMAND was retreived using build_command()
>
> and occasionally do ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND( target Build${PROJECT}   ...
> some other commands... )
>
>
> on watcom, mingw, and usually visual studio, the cmake lists that uses
> this macro basically ends up running cmake and an approprite build
> command for each project...
>
> I have a bunch fo project build targets, and have added dependencies
> to most of that like  'add_dependencies( ${LAST_TARGET} Buildcore )'
> so Buildcore will get built first... last_target is set by the
> macro... yadda yadda.
>
> All of that works.
>
> But today, and some time last month a bit...