[CMake] Visual Studio macro execution inconsistency

[David Cole]

We intentionally did that, by design, with the assumption that people
would be working from the root solution file most of the time.

This is the first time, to my knowledge, anybody has made this
particular complaint to the mailing list.

It would be possible to itearate the full list of generated solution
files and make reload calls for each one that happens to be open.....
but somebody would have to write the code to do that: it's just time
and effort, (plus, it doesn't work well with VS10 and later anyhow...
see http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11258 (sad, but I know
this bug number by heart now))

I'd recommend using the non-CMake solution to this problem mentioned
in that bug report if possible. Try using the VS plugin from
vscommands.com and see if it works better for you.


HTH,
David



On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any info on this?
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is a macro installed into Visual Studio 2008 by CMake that
>> detects when the solution & projects have been regenerated and will
>> allow me to reload the solution without clicking through hundreds of
>> individual reload confirmations for each project.
>>
>> I find that this macro works fine if I work directly from the solution
>> generated by the top-level project() command (in the root
>> CMakeLists.txt script), however it does not work for any solutions I
>> use further down the output directory tree from other project() calls.
>>
>> When I work from these other solutions, CMake is successfully invoked
>> when scripts are changed, but I do not get any confirmation to reload
>> the solution from the macro.
>>
>> Any reason why this doesn't work? Is it a problem on my end, or is
>> this a known issue?
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