[cmake-developers] visual studio usage

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sat Jun 2 17:02:59 EDT 2012


On 6/1/2012 6:49 PM, J Decker wrote:
> shouldn't cmake use 'msbuild' instead of 'devenv.com' or 'devenv.exe'?
>
> I have a feeling that would solve one of my issues with visual studio,
> in that after building a long chain of cmake projects using visual
> studio, all of the most recent project references are updated to being
> the projects that were built, thereby losing the projects I'm actually
> working on.
Trouble is things like Intel Fortran do not work with msbuild.  Not sure 
how to fix that.  I suppose we could create a special generator that had 
VS Fortran support.  Not sure if there are other third party plugins 
that do not work with msbuild either.

-Bill




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