[CMake] Workflow of a collaborative project in Visual Studio+CMake

Michael Jackson mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
Sat Nov 12 11:57:25 EST 2011


On Nov 12, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> On 11/12/2011 10:51 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>>> It basically comes down to the inconvenience of having to do that with
>>> Visual Studio being outweighed (considerably!) by the cross-platform
>>> benefits of CMake.  (It does help that none of our developers use Windows as
>>> their primary development platform, so it only comes up when we make sure
>>> things are working on Windows...)
>>> 
>> 
>> I use Visual Studio 2010 daily for the last 6 months or so and the bug
>> is not that difficult for me to work with at all. I do admit it is
>> annoying when you get prompted 50 times to reload projects but most of
>> the time it does not do that. I mean if you only add files to a single
>> project it will not prompt you for the other 49. Now if I know the
>> change will be big, I usually close the solution and run cmake
>> externally from a script.
>> 
> Does this solution work for VS 2010:
> 
> There is an out of cmake solution for this.
> 
> http://vscommands.com/ [^]
> 
> If you install the VSCommands plugin free version, it will fix the reload dialog to only ask once.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> --

So with CMake 2.8.6 and the vscommands installed with VS 2010 I will get ONLY a single dialog asking me to reload the VS solution file? If that is true I can handle that as an added requirement.

Thanks
Mike Jackson


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