[CMake] Visual Studio rebuilding ZERO_CHECK

[Jonathan Romero]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Micha Renner <Micha.Renner at t-online.de>wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 14:51 +0200 schrieb Robert Carnecky:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My Visual Studio 2010 is constantly prompting me to build ZERO_CHECK
> > every time I try to run my program, even though nothing has changed. Is
> > there a workaround for this?
>
> No, that is the current situation. This problem and some others belong
> to a complex of problems which CMake has with Visual Studio since 2008.
> May be it becomes better with VS 2012.
>
> Micha
>
>
> >
> > How to reproduce:
> > 1. Set up the simplest project possible (see below).
> > 2. Configure and generate using the CMake GUI.
> > 3. Open the project file and build the project. Project successfully
> builds.
> > 4. Start the application from within Visual Studio (press F5). A message
> > box appears, saying "This project is out of date: ZERO_CHECK. Would you
> > like to build it?".
> > 5. Click on yes. ZERO_CHECK is built, no actual code gets compiled. The
> > application starts and exits.
> > 6. Go to step 4 (message box appears again).
> >
> > I do not want to enable automatic rebuilds without prompts, since I have
> > other projects where a build can take very long and I do not want to
> > start it when not necessary. Starting a build immediately deletes the
> > executable file and I would not be able to run the last version while
> > making changes to the code.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Robert
> >
> >
> > CMakeLists.txt:
> > project(test)
> > cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8.8)
> > add_executable(main main.cpp)
> >
> > main.cpp:
> > int main() {return 0;}
> >
> > System:
> > CMake 2.8.8
> > Visual Studio 2010, 64bit compiler
> > Windows 7 64bit
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Did you set your startup project?  ZERO_CHECK will be the default but you
can override it by right clicking on the actual project you wish to run and
choosing "Set as Startup Project" in visual studio.  I believe this is a
user specific setting in visual studio (not a project setting) so you
always have to do this through the GUI.  I dont think there is anything in
your CMakeLists.txt you can do to work around it.

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Jonathan S. Romero
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