[CMake] VS2010 solution/project reload

[David Cole]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Andrea Galeazzi <Galeazzi at korg.it> wrote:
>>> I'm currently dealing with a project requiring a lot of dependencies
>>> (74),
>>> so the structure of the CMakeLists.txt is as following:
>>> project ( Main )
>>>  add_subdirectory("W:/Lib1"  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Lib1")
>>>  add_subdirectory("W:/Lib2"  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Lib2")
>>>  add_subdirectory("W:/Lib3"  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Lib3")
>>>  ................
>>>  add_executable( Main ${SOURCES} )
>>>  target_link_libraries(Main ${LIB_TO_LINK})
>>>
>>> When I choose  a VS2010 CMake generates a solution of 77 projects (74
>>> +Main
>>> + ALL_BUILD + ZERO_CHECK).
>>> Now if I modify the CMakeLists.txt of one of the subproject and build
>>> the
>>> Main project VS2010 notify that many other project has been modified and
>>> also the solution. So, for instance, if I add a file to a subproject
>>> VS2010
>>> shows a lot of dialog asking to reload the projects again and that's
>>> very
>>> frustrating!
>>> My question is: is it a bug or a normal behavior? If the second, how can
>>> I
>>> avoid it?
>
>> It's listed as a bug in the CMake bug tracker:
>> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11258
>
> [...]
>
>> For now the best workaround (that I personally use all the time), is
>> to exit Visual Studio entirely, run cmake or cmake-gui manually, and
>> then re-launch Visual Studio. It may sound painful, but really, it's
>> much more enjoyable than wading through all the reload dialogs...
>
> Isn't it enough to unload the solution? That would save at least the time
> starting Visual Studio.
>
> Eike
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Yes, simply unloading the solution (rather than fully exiting Visual
Studio) also appears to be adequate.

I've found that 2nd and subsequent launches of VS are not nearly as
painful as the initial launch. Sometimes you get into an overkill
habit that's hard to unlearn later on... :-)