[CMake] User generated header file
Michael Jackson
mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
Mon Sep 19 12:26:25 EDT 2011
On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Perry Ismangil wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:47, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The fact is it works the way you want, which is good, but beside that
>> why would it be better for the user to face a failing build (because
>> he forgot to create the file)
>> than
>> face a failing CMake run (because he forgot to create the file)?
>
> This is because for now, we are going to supply pre-made VS solution
> files instead of geting developers running CMake on their Windows
> machine. That is, we'll run CMake to generate VS 10 files and ship
> that.
>
> So we're using CMake just as a VS10 generator at release time.
>
> Probably later on we'll decide if we just ship CMakeLists and get the
> developers to run CMake generators themselves. If they do, then yes we
> can generate this header on the fly like the configure/Makefile-based
> system we use now on the Unix platforms.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Perry Ismangil
Aren't the Generated VS10 Solutions _still_ dependent on CMake or has that changed?
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Mike Jackson www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
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