[CMake] exclude build project from solution

[Johan Björk]

Dave, Bill? Anyone know what the difference is intended to be between
EXLUDE_FROM_ALL vs EXCLUDE_FROM_DEFAULT_BUILD?

/Johan


On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Johan Björk <phb at spotify.com> wrote:

> And another update while at it.
>
> The following cmake file illustrates the issue:
>
> FILE(WRITE foo.c "")
> add_library(foo EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL foo.c)
> set_target_properties(foo PROPERTIES EXCLUDE_FROM_DEFAULT_BUILD 1)
> FILE(WRITE foobar.c "")
> add_executable(foobar foobar.c)
> target_link_libraries(foobar foo)
>
> This works fine in the makefile (and xcode) generator, but fails in MSVC
> 2008 with
> 1>------ Skipped Build: Project: foo, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> 1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> 2>------ Build started: Project: foobar, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> 2>Compiling...
> 2>foobar.c
> 2>Compiling manifest to resources...
> 2>Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.0.5724.0
> 2>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 2>Linking...
> 2>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'Debug\foo.lib'
> 2>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\Felix Bruns\Documents\Visual
> Studio 2008\Projects\a'\foobar.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
> 2>foobar - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> 3>------ Skipped Build: Project: ALL_BUILD, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> 3>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 1 up-to-date, 2 skipped ==========
>
> I'll file a bug.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Johan Björk <phb at spotify.com> wrote:
>
>> and I just found
>>
>> The EXCLUDE_FROM_DEFAULT_BUILD property is used by the visual studio
>> generators. If it is set to 1 the target will not be part of the default
>> build when you select "Build Solution".
>>
>> Anyone know why it is different from EXLUDE_FROM_ALL ?
>>
>> -Johan
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Johan Björk <phb at spotify.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Anyone know anything about this? I'm seeing the same issue with MSVC 2008
>>> + cmake 2.8(.?)
>>>
>>> add_library(foo .. EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL ..)
>>>
>>> -Johan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Andrea Galeazzi <Galeazzi at korg.it>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've a project made up of multiple executable target:
>>>> add_executable(TARGET_NAME1 ${SOURCES1})
>>>> add_executable(TARGET_NAME2 ${SOURCES2})
>>>> add_executable(TARGET_NAME3 ${SOURCES3})
>>>>
>>>> ...........
>>>> Now I'd like to build just only TARGET_NAME1 when I press F7 (build
>>>> solution) in visual studio. I tried to add
>>>> set_target_properties(TARGET_**NAME2 PROPERTIES EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
>>>> "TRUE")
>>>> set_target_properties(TARGET_**NAME3 PROPERTIES EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
>>>> "TRUE")
>>>> ......
>>>> but it only remove the dependency from ALL_BUILD project.
>>>> So, is it possible to generate a such kind of solution?
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