[CMake] Workflow of a collaborative project in Visual Studio+CMake

[Michael Jackson]

It is worse and better.

1: CMake will generate the VS projects and solutions every time it needs to run. DO NOT EDIT the generated VS projects and solutions. Add the requirements to the CMake files.

2: If you are on VS2007/VS2008 and you do a "git pull" and then switch to VS and click build a cmake check is run FIRST. If anything is different the new solution and project files are generated and then the build continues. You will get a dialog asking if you want to reload all of the projects. Things are pretty nice.

3: If you are on VS2010 there is now a long standing bug that seems to have no solution where you basically have to do the following:
 Close the VS solution
 git pull
 run cmake to regenerate the solution and projects
 Open the Solution and Compile.

Yep. Sucks. Purchased VS2010 last year and have yet to use it because of that bug. If we (the cmake community**) were to actually figure out how to solve the problem then VS2010 would be as seamless as VS2008. Here is hoping for the future.

** I have kept track of the bug. Kitware and others have put a lot of time into trying to fix the bug. It just seams to be one of those elusive fixes that there just may not be a solution to.
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Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On Nov 11, 2011, at 5:30 PM, David Doria wrote:

> I typically work in KDevelop which has CMake support, so if another
> developer pushes some new files and changes to the CMakeLists.txt of
> my project, I simply 'git pull' the project and then click "Build" and
> it knows exactly what to do - it runs CMake and then builds the
> project.
> 
> However, when working with Visual Studio, do I have to 'git pull',
> then go open cmake-gui from the VS2010E terminal, re-configure and
> re-generate the project, then reimport the VS2010E project, then
> build? This seems horribly awkward. And the reverse appears to have
> the same problem - if working inside VS I add a file to the VS
> project, how do I 'export' this addition back to the git repo?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> --