[CMake] VC2010 Express crashing

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 21.11.11 17:37:14, Robert Dailey wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:32 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Yes it is 100% reproducible.
> > > I don't know if telling someone to send reports to Microsoft and have
> > them
> > > fix the problem is the most reasonable solution.
> > >
> >
> > Isn't it a Microsoft bug? I mean even if the sln file was somehow
> > wrong Visual Studio should not crash when using it.
> 
> 
> I agree but if there is a workaround that can be used, I prefer that in the
> meantime since obviously whatever is causing the problem probably won't be
> fixed in the next 6 months, if at all.
> 
> For example, if CMake is generating something that doesn't mix well with VC
> 2010 Express, it would be nice to know what that is so maybe I can work
> around the issue.
> 
> I can't think of any way to debug this problem though.

You could try disabling some of your 120 projects if they don't have too
many interdependencies and see wether the resulting solution file still
crashes VS. This would maybe allow you to find out which cmake commands
lead to the solution that crashes VS.

Andreas