[cmake-developers] Automatic project generation with Visual Studio generators

[Yves Frederix]

Hi Brad,

I finally got to creating a pull request for this, see
https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/262.

Regards,
Yves


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 09/16/2016 03:37 AM, Yves Frederix wrote:
>> This would work, but it would make all builds using 'cmake --build'
>> more verbose as before actually starting the msbuild-build, this would
>> always print an often large number of lines like:
>>
>>   CMake does not need to re-run because .../CMakeFiles/generate.stamp
>> is up-to-date.
> [snip]
>> Or alternatively I could add an option '--verbose|-V' to cmake that
>> would control whether to print them?
>
> We don't need to invoke the `--check-stamp-list` command by executing
> another process.  The `cmake --build` process can just invoke the same
> APIs internally, and with options to be quiet.  After regeneration is
> complete (or not done) then it can run the normal build command.
>
> -Brad
>