[CMake] Visual Studio reload projects

Jesper Eskilson jesper at eskilson.se
Tue Sep 4 03:00:09 EDT 2007


Torsten Martinsen wrote:
> gga <> wrote:
> 
>> KSpam wrote:
>>> I agree that this is a Visual Studio issue; however, I am wondering
>>> if anyone knows a workaround.  I am not a Windows developer, but I
>>> figured that someone on this list would have found a reasonable
>>> solution.
>>>
>>
>> Sure.  Don't use Visual Studio.  Stick to nmake and a good editor like
>> emacs.  You'll be a happier person in the long run.
> 
> I, too, use Emacs. However, do not be oblivious to the fact that an
> nmake build can take around five times longer than an IDE build.

Performance is one reason, yes -- especially in these multicore times;
nmake cannot handle parallell builds -- but the most (or only)
compelling reason to use Visual Studio as opposed to Emacs + command
line builds is that the Visual Studio debugger is superior to all other
debuggers available on Windows.

-- 
/Jesper


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