[CMake] Regenerating Visual Studio projects

[David Cole]

I have added comments to http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7708 -- I
cannot reproduce the issue with "unrelated" Visual Studio instances. Only VS
instances with the regenerated .sln file open prompt with dialogs.
Please read the notes in the bug report and re-open it with instructions on
how to reproduce your problem if I have misread something...

Thanks,
David Cole


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When CMake (2.6) discovers that a CMakeLists.txt file has changed, and
>> that one or more Visual Studio projects/solutions need to be reloaded, it
>> attempts to interrupt the build, force Visual Studio to reload the projects,
>> and then restart the build. This is really good compared to CMake 2.4, where
>> the projects weren't reloaded until the build had completed and you possibly
>> had to build again from scratch.
>>
>> I have a problem, though: CMake does not properly detect if it is being
>> run from inside Visual Studio, and it doesn't check that it interrupting the
>> correct Visual Studio instance.
>>
>> Say that you have a studio instance opened on a solution. If I run CMake
>> to regenerate a completely different solution, CMake will try to interrupt
>> the (unrelated) studio instance. This wouldn't be too bad unless Visual
>> Studio kept throwing up interactive dialogs asking "do you really want to
>> interrupt the build" and "do you want to reload 78 project files". I have
>> users who needs to run my build scripts (which invoke cmake) without the
>> script interfering with any other studio instances they may have running.
>>
>> Either CMake should detect that it is being run under Visual Studio and
>> attempt to stop/interrupt the studio instance which it was started by, or
>> there should be a flag to disable any form of communication with Visual
>> Studio as in CMake 2.4).
>>
>> Which brings me to my second issue: when CMake is rerun from inside Visual
>> Studio, I have to click on at least 3 interactive dialogs in order for the
>> project to be reloaded. Is there anything CMake can do about that? I don't
>> want to click on any dialogs at all, just have the project files recreated
>> and reloaded.
>>
>>  Please create a bug report about this issue.
>
> -Bill
>
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