[CMake] Question about Windows support.

[David Cole]

How did you (1) disable the custom build rules for the CMakeLists.txt 
files and (2) add source control...? Do you do it by hand after running 
CMake or do you have a script that does it? Would you mind posting 
specific answers back to the list so that other Visual Studio users can 
benefit from your suggestions?

Thanks,
David


Sylvain Benner wrote:

> I've posted a way to handle precompiled headers the 1st June. You 
> should find it if you browse for the threads of june 2006, the name of 
> the thread is "Precompiled Headers".
> I don't know if it's a good way to handle it but my main concern was 
> to do a CMakeLists.txt that is friendly to edit, quickly 
> understandable and with the possibility to add new properties easily, 
> so I tried to it this way.
>
> A side note : If you are using CMake with a lot of projects in VS IDE 
> I suggest to disable custom build rules for the CMakeLists.txt files 
> and add the CMake GUI to the external tools. The developpers use the 
> front-end when they need to do it by calling the GUI from the tools 
> menu (I added source control so they should know when they check out a 
> CMakeLists.txt), it speeds up the compilation time a bit and the 
> "reload" popup will not interfere with the compilation (it needs to 
> cancel the compilation every time and rerun it) which leads to a much 
> more comfortable work environment.
>
> Sylvain
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bennett Smith" <idvlpsw at gmail.com>
> To: "William A. Hoffman" <billlist at nycap.rr.com>
> Cc: <cmake at cmake.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 7:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Question about Windows support.
>
>
>> Thank you for the reply.  This sounds very encouraging!  I have
>> ordered a copy of the book from Kitware about CMake.  In order to more
>> quickly come up to speed on how to do the things listed in my original
>> post can you suggest any resources?  Thus far in my searching of the
>> mailing list archive I have not found answers.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> -- Bennett
>>
>> On 6/2/06, William A. Hoffman <billlist at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> At 12:38 PM 6/2/2006, Bennett Smith wrote:
>>> >Hi,
>>> >
>>> >I'm just starting to learn cmake, and am wondering what the level of
>>> >on-going support is for the Windows platform.  A couple things that I
>>> >am hoping cmake can do are:
>>> >
>>> >1. Handle generation of library and executable targets with different
>>> >names for debug and release configurations.
>>>
>>> This is done in CMake 2.4.2
>>>
>>> >2. Handle pre-compiled header files with Visual C++.
>>>
>>> This has been done, but is not directly supported.
>>>
>>>
>>> >3. Handle COM *.idl files and the invocation of MIDL.
>>>
>>> This can be done but is not directly supported.
>>>
>>> >4. Handle manifest files in association with executables.
>>>
>>> CMake 2.4.2 does this.
>>>
>>>
>>> >I have not been able to find any discussion and/or examples of how
>>> >cmake addresses these issues.  I have searched through the bug
>>> >database and it looks like there are some issues related to the above
>>> >mentioned items.  Some of these issues were posted back in 2004, and
>>> >it doesn't look like anyone has been actively working on them.
>>>
>>> The bug tracker is in serious need of clean up.....
>>>
>>>
>>> >In general, are people using cmake for Windows projects?  Who are the
>>> >active contributors to the windows specific aspects of cmake?  Can
>>> >anyone offer some historic perspective on how well the Windows
>>> >platform is supported by cmake in general?
>>>
>>> Windows Visual Studio is one of the major platforms for CMake, and is
>>> very actively supported.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> -- 
>> Bennett Smith
>> iDevelopSoftware, Inc.
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