[CMake] Parallel builds

[J Decker]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know that I can pass -j parameter to GNU make as well as there is
> some sort of option to run MSVC compiler by hand and give that similar
> parameter, but that's not exactly what I want.
>
> I would prefer a way to get cmake to generate solution files for MSVC
> in a way that these options are enabled by default. Right now I need
> to do this by hand and when I run cmake again, it overwrites the
> solution files I modified and restore back the settings that disallow
> the multithreaded builds. Basically I would like to know if there is
> some option I would add to CMakeLists.txt that would make it do so. I
> understand that this may not possible with current version of CMake
> though.
>
What modification do you make?  I have to do none myself to get it;
because again that's a setting that's outside of the project/solution
files.  It's something the IDE has internally to pass to MSBUILD as a
parameter (/m:<n>)

> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/434
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