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

[David Cole]

For reference, the bug Mike refers to is this one:

  http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11258

I always use the manual technique of shutting down VS, running CMake,
and then re-opening VS. It's really not that bad, once you get used to
it.


David C.


On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> 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.
> --
> 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
>> --
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