[cmake-developers] Natvis support in Visual Studio

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Jul 15 10:41:19 EDT 2016


On 07/15/2016 10:23 AM, Robert Dailey wrote:
> Nice, I wasn't aware that there was already a feature in place to
> support this. Given that this exists, is there any point to adding an
> explicit code change to support natvis files?

The VS_TOOL_OVERRIDE option is nice to allow projects a path forward
for types that CMake doesn't yet support.  However, we should still
add types as needed to CMake.

> I have a simple patch attached that shows the change I've made to the code.

Applied, thanks:

 VS: Add support for NATVIS files
 https://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6290cff

-Brad



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