[cmake-developers] C# support?

Fri Jul 3 05:38:16 EDT 2015

Hi all,

some minor updates to the patches. There where 2-3 bugs somewhere...

https://github.com/micst/CMake/tree/csharp is up to date.

best regards,
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-developers [mailto:cmake-developers-bounces at cmake.org] On
> Behalf Of Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 3:54 PM
> To: cmake-developers at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] C# support?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I got the first sort of working version running. Would be great if some
> people could have a look at it if it's going into a good direction.
> 
> Some explanations:
> 
> Patch 0001:
>  - adds the necessary Module/* files for enabling C# as a language
>  - CAUTION: only Visual Studio 2013 generators are supported at the
> moment
>  - there is a verbose message which is shown when C# is used to guide
> people where to go for improvement
> 
> Patch 0002:
>  - some minor changes to mostly visual studio related classes to enable
> .csproj support
>    o .csproj GUID is added
>    o a method to check if the target is C# is added
> 
> Patch 0003:
>  - the actual implementation of the .csproj generation
>  - all generation takes place inside VisualStudio10TargetGenerator
> class
> 
> 
> There is an example project in the appendix of this mail which you can
> use to see how .csproj can be generated now.
> 
> And yes, there are still quite some things missing:
> 
>  - Tests (!!!!)
>  - NMake support (even though that should not bee too hard)
>    o better handling of the flagtable that I added (not sure if I
> understood correctly how the concept is supposed to be used)
>  - documentation (!!!!)
> 
> Most questions on how to use the C# language and mixing with C++
> targets should be answered by looking at the example project.
> 
> Some VS_* target properties already existed which I reused.
> 
> I added two Property-"Groups":
>  - VS_DOTNET_REFERENCE_<NAME>        properties for references with a
> <Hint> tag, though they
>                                      also can be added to the normal
> VS_DOTNET_REFERENCES. This is
>                                      a target-property
>  - CSharpPROJ_<name>                 the tag <name> will be added to
> the <Compile> tag of the specified
>                                      Source files. This is a source
> property.
>  - CSharpPROJ_SubType                the currently only used case of
> above property group. It's needed
>                                      to tell visual studio what kind of
> file is added. You can safely omit
>                                      this, but visual studio will not
> be able to run the designer in the
>                                      correct mode without it.
> 
> Project references are added by simply using target_link_libraries().
> All other references must use done in one of the above described ways.
> 
> It would be great if some people could try if the example project works
> for them. If you have improvements don't hesitate to submit any patch
> to my current fork on github (branch "csharp"):
> 
> https://github.com/micst/CMake.git
> 
> The example project can be found there as well:
> 
> https://github.com/micst/CMakeCSharpTest.git
> 
> 
> best regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cmake-developers [mailto:cmake-developers-bounces at cmake.org] On
> > Behalf Of Brad King
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 3:49 PM
> > To: cmake-developers at cmake.org
> > Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] C# support?
> >
> > On 06/30/2015 03:21 AM, Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP wrote:
> > > it would be great if some people could step forward once everything
> > is
> > > running from my side to help get makefile and linux support (and
> > > test other Visual Studio versions).
> >
> > Once you have it working in VS 2013 the other VS >= 2010 versions
> > should be easy.  I'm not sure about other generators yet.  If you
> have
> > good coverage in the test suite updates then that will make the task
> > of adding support to other generators easier.
> >
> > For now you can have CMakeDetermineCSharpCompiler do a
> > message(FATAL_ERROR) when CMAKE_GENERATOR is set to a value that is
> > not supported.  That can be lifted when the other generators
> implement
> > the language.
> >
> > > About enable_language():
> > >
> > > have the appropriate cmake-scripts in "Module" directory
> > [snip]
> > > Almost everything relevant goes in the target generator class
> > > VisualStudio10TargetGenerator.
> >
> > Great!
> >
> > > Once done, do you want patchfiles here on the list or a pull
> request
> > > from my fork on github?
> >
> > Please send patch files here as requested in CONTRIBUTING.rst.
> > Please re-organize commits into a logical series of updates rather
> > than the original unorganized development history.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Brad
> >
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