[cmake-developers] visual studio usage

[J Decker]

There are two reasons this is an issue (for me)

1) using devenv to build is MUCH slower on many of the projects than
just using MSBuild.  ... yes I know, longer build times mean more time
at the water cooler or whatever...

2) Using devenv, each project that gets built becomes a
most-recently-used file for visual studio, so the things I'm actually
working on (not the dozens of projects that get built with automated
method) get lost; they get shoved off the list of recently used files
pretty quick.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:22 AM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay I saw the comments in the platform scripts about fortran, but
> maybe a symbol could be added to maybe prefer msbuild; there are a
> couple like that for InstallSystemRuntimeLibraries or whatever that
> was... so you can control the behavior.  The other alternative might
> be add additional options for generators that prefer one or the other.
>
> if( PREFER_MSBUILD )
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
> <pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It will probably introduce other problems:
>>
>> MsBuild woes
>> http://www.elpauer.org/?p=955
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:49 AM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Pau Garcia i Quiles
>> http://www.elpauer.org
>> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)