[cmake-developers] automoc: Use a pre-build event in VS >= 7

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 02 April 2013, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Brad King wrote:
> > Alex, Steve,
> > 
> > I just made this automoc change:
> >  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=20c99b1d
> > 
> > in response to discussion here:
> >  http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=13900#c32710
> > 
> > In addition to working around a VS 2012 bug, it also makes projects
> > look nicer in the VS IDE by not loading *_automoc targets.  Instead
> > it uses PRE_BUILD events in the respective original targets.  IIUC
> > VS runs these events when starting a target if and only iff any of
> > the rules in the target are out of date.  Therefore when headers
> > or sources change that require any re-compilation in a target it
> > will be re-automoc-ed again.
> 
> I didn't try it out, and I don't really know anything about the windows
> generators or PRE_BUILD commands to comment about those aspect. If it
> works, I'm happy though.

Same for me.

Alex