[CMake] Making ALL_BUILD be Visual Studio's "startup project"

Philip Lowman philip at yhbt.com
Mon Nov 24 23:21:05 EST 2008


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Tyler Roscoe <tyler at cryptio.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:22:22PM -0500, David.Karr at L-3COM.COM wrote:
> > In a certain project where we started using CMake about five years ago,
> > it used to be that when we opened the Visual Studio 6.0 workspace
> > created by CMake, the ALL_BUILD project was conveniently defined as the
> > "startup project" already, meaning that all one had to do was to click
> > the "Build" button (or press F7) to build the entire workspace.  (OK,
> [snip]
> > So, the question: Does anyone want this?
>
> I think this is a good idea. Our developers are also accustomed to this
> behavior, so if CMake can do the same thing with the sln/vcproj files it
> generates, that will be one less workflow change for them to deal with.


Yes, please post the patch and/or open a bug entry and attach it.  This has
been an annoying thorn in the sides of our windows developers for what seems
like forever.

-- 
Philip Lowman
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