[CMake] Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview cannot open cmake-generated vcproj files

[David Cole]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 2:42 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>
>>> Ideas on how to make this work? Other than ditching this experiment
>>> alltogether that is? ;)
>>
>> Add a VS 2011 generator to CMake which generates the correct solution
>> files and post the patch to a corresponding bugreport in the tracker.
>>
> Actually, we already have a VS2011 generator.  However, we only tested it on
> windows 7 machines.  This is the first time we have ever seen a difference
> in OS for the file format of a VS project.  Seems like a crazy policy from
> MS.  You might want to report it as a bug.  How would you work on a
> non-cmake based project with VS 2011 project files in version control work.
>
> For CMake it sounds like we need to detect the OS we are running on. You
> would need to figure out what the files should look like.  Sounds like the
> .NET framework needs to be different and the project version. It would be
> great if you could modify a CMake generated project to make it work.  Even
> better if you had a patch for CMake to generate the right files when on
> Windows 8.
>
> -Bill
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It's not a Windows 8 thing at all... Same symptom occurs on Windows 7.
It's CMake generating this incorrectly:

  # Visual Studio 2011

When it should be generating:

  # Visual Studio 11

Since the comment there does not start with the expected string, the
launcher does not recognize it.

This commit just pushed to 'next' should fix it:

  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0d66ab40aee3af3d201201e7b1275783ffbab36

That commit will make it into the next rev of CMake.


HTH,
David C.