[CMake] Forcing vc guiids to be the same

[Eric Noulard]

We are using CMake on Windows for generating
Visual Studio solution file for a small project.

Nevertheless as far as I'm not wrong,
you do not have to 'monitor' CMakeLists.txt for change.

When you are in Visual Studio and your recently update
your sources and "Build" your solution (or any project in solution)
if ever a CMakeList.txt concerned by your build have changed
CMake is launched automagically from within Visual Studio.

The only "drawback" of this is that after/during the build Visual Studio
complain about ".sln" being modified and propose to restart Visual Studio.

So if your CMakeLists.txt does not change too often/or you do not
update too much the CMake behaviour is optimal and you don't
even have to Launch CMake GUI "manually" but
only OK to restart Visual Studio from time to time.

Anyone may correct me if i'm wrong since I am relatively new
to CMake on Windows AND Visual Studio use.


2006/10/18, Matthew Campbell <Matthew.Campbell at emergent.net>:
> As a follow up to this question, I would prefer that the CMakeLists are the
> only things in the repository.  Some of my co-workers are a little nervous
> about the workflow.  I proposed to them that anytime a sync is done to the
> repository code base, one should open up the cmake gui and rebuild the
> solutions and projects just in case something changed. (versus looking
> through the sync results and checking to see if a cmakelists got modified).
> Just get into a habit of doing it.
>
> So the concern is that the process will take too long.  Our code base clocks
> in to at least 500,000 lines of code with many different projects.  I know
> KDE has successfully moved to cmake for the kdelibs so I was hoping to get
> some feedback on how much time it takes cmake to generate the resulting
> projects/solutions and/or makefiles given a large code base.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-bounces+matthew.campbell=emergent.net at cmake.org
> [mailto:cmake-bounces+matthew.campbell=emergent.net at cmake.org] On Behalf Of
> Matthew Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:08 PM
> To: Brad King
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: RE: [CMake] Forcing vc guiids to be the same
>
> Understood.  Thanks for the info guys.
>
> -Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad King [mailto:brad.king at kitware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 12:45 PM
> To: Matthew Campbell
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Forcing vc guiids to be the same
>
> Matthew Campbell wrote:
> > I was wondering if there was any way to instruct cmake to generate the
> > same guid's for Microsoft projects and solution files?  We would like to
> > have the option of putting the solutions and projects in source control
> > but this poses a problem since the guids are regenerated and differ each
> > time.
>
> FYI, putting the CMake-generated build system under source control is
> not a supported use case.  In order to build anything non-trivial CMake
> has to be on the system where the build occurs.
>
> -Brad
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-- 
Erk