[cmake-developers] C# support ready for review

[David Cole]

Seems to me like C# support should work just fine with other generators: ninja, nmake, and UNIX Makefiles included. Especially with mono on Linux/Mac.


David

> On Mar 7, 2016, at 2:12 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/25/2016 05:51 AM, Stuermer, Michael  SP/HZA-ZSEP wrote:
>> The part that probably needs most additional work is all the
>> C# detection and configuration part in the module scripts.
> 
> In your branch Modules/CMakeDetermineCSharpCompiler.cmake currently
> has a lot of logic and environment checks for this.  It shouldn't
> need to be that complicated.  Anything requiring deep introspection
> of the system (especially the registry) should be something done
> in the C++ generator implementation and provided to CMake platform
> files as a variable.
> 
> For example, the VS generators always provide msbuild:
> 
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/variable/CMAKE_VS_MSBUILD_COMMAND.html
> 
> For the path to the compiler tool, take a look at
> 
> Modules/CompilerId/VS-10.vcxproj.in
> 
> and use of it by Modules/CMakeDetermineCompilerId.cmake.  That all
> runs while detecting the compiler id using a small test project.
> It has a custom command that searches the PATH in the IDE project
> build environment to print out the path to the compiler.  You should
> create one like this for CSharp too.
> 
> We'll also need to define behavior when CSharp is enabled by projects
> under a non-VS generator.  Other generators should reject any such
> attempt with an error message.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Brad
> 
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