[cmake-developers] VS Toolchain Support

[Olmstead, Don]

Thanks for the response Brad!

I would be interested in the JSON format. Do you have any opinions on what that would look like or would you just like to see some implementation before proceding?

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad King [mailto:brad.king at kitware.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 5:22 AM
To: Olmstead, Don <Don.Olmstead at sony.com>
Cc: cmake-developers at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] VS Toolchain Support

On 08/23/2016 01:58 PM, Olmstead, Don wrote:
> is there any work being done to more accurately create project files 
> for different toolchains?

No one is actively working on it AFAIK.  The central tracking issue for this is here:

  https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/16153

Basically one needs to add a bunch more flag tables and then teach the generators to choose a table based on the toolset rather than the generator.

The additional tables could be hard-coded in the C++ source.
Alternatively one could design a JSON format to look up the tables from some resource directory that comes with CMake.  That would allow additional tables to be added without re-compiling.  I don't think we should allow projects to provide the files themselves though because we should reserve the right to refactor them at will.

-Brad