[cmake-developers] visual studio usage

[J Decker]

I mean using cmake --build . and/or getting BUILD_COMMAND from cmake
which comes back as devenv which is then used to build projects.

I had a bunch of cmake projects that built from a batch file, then I
made a cmakelists that does the same thing, so I have one
cmakelists.txt which builds all other top level cmakelists.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
<pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry but it's not clear to me: when you say "using devenv" do you
> mean opening the IDE, or do you mean calling devenv form the
> command-line like "devenv /build Debug mysolution.sln"? The former is
> slow due to IntelliSense, ReSharper, etc but the latter is very fast.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:59 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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)
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> Pau Garcia i Quiles
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> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)