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

[J Decker]

Mostly stable releases a week or so after non RC is released...

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:39 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> Have you even used a "nightly CMake" from the last month or so, or
> have you only been using release candidates and official releases?
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ya, unfortunatly I don't have the specific case that was failing
>> anymore... it's probably because I've been using the same build output
>> since 2.8.6 and just keep updating cmake... last couple versions have
>> actually gone smoothly
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:21 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> Can you try again with a nightly build of CMake?
>>>
>>> There's a change that we did not take that *is* in the nightly build,
>>> but is not in the 2.8.9 release. I'd like to know if that change is
>>> responsible for this behavior.
>>>
>>> We were uncertain of this commit [
>>> http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=e16f58ddd6aea9bebc6b4a914eed54cf7517ff61
>>> ] ... so it did not go into the 2.8.9 release.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thx,
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:33 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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...
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