[cmake-developers] [CMake] Visual Studio <Version> <Arch> - Ninja Generator

[Stephen Kelly]

James Johnston wrote:

>> > it would be useful to have Visual Studio available as an "Extra" CMake
>> > generator.  For example, specification of "Visual Studio 2015 - Ninja"
>> 
>> This functionality sounds reasonable but the name of the extra/generator
>> pair looks funny when spelled out that way.  We should consider having
>> another way to specify the extra generator.
> 
> This name is consistent with the other extra generators:

... however the design is not.

The 'extra generators' do their generation after the 'real' makefile or 
ninja generator.

Your proposal seems to be something different design-wise. From what I 
understand, you are proposing something which would need to do different 
things during the 'real' generate.

In terms of name though, it might not matter that IDE and non-IDE 'extra' 
generators are implemented in completely different ways.

> But I agree it is just confusing at this point.  Maybe this format could
> be deprecated in favor of a new cmake.exe switch to specify an extra
> generator.

Perhaps. It seems Xcode+Ninja could also be a valid pairing.

Thanks,

Steve.