[CMake] Problem with CMAKE_AUTOMOC files not being regenerated or cleaned

[Glenn Coombs]

Alex,

Would you like me to file a bug report on this ?

--
Glenn


On 1 May 2013 08:33, Glenn Coombs <glenn.coombs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I select "Clean Solution" from the Build menu which is a complete clean.
> The output looks like this:
>
> 1>------ Skipped Clean: Project: INSTALL, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> 1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> 2>------ Clean started: Project: ALL_BUILD, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> 3>------ Clean started: Project: yuv_player, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> 4>------ Clean started: Project: yuv_player_automoc, Configuration: Debug
> Win32 ------
> 5>------ Clean started: Project: ZERO_CHECK, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> ========== Clean: 4 succeeded, 0 failed, 1 skipped ==========
>
> The yuv_player_automoc project looks like it is being cleaned but the
> associated moc_*.cpp and yuv_player_automoc.cpp files are never deleted.
> After doing a "Clean Solution" and manually deleting the
> yuv_player_automoc.cpp file a build works as expected:
>
> 1>------ Build started: Project: ZERO_CHECK, Configuration: Debug Win32
> ------
> 2>------ Build started: Project: yuv_player_automoc, Configuration: Debug
> Win32 ------
> 1>  Checking Build System
> 2>  Automoc for target yuv_player
> 1>  CMake does not need to re-run because
> C:/data/perforceCheckouts/sim/tools/yuvplayer/DEV/glenn.coombs/cmake/CMakeFiles/generate.stamp
> is up-to-date.
> 2>  Generating moc_ctrlBasic.cpp
> 2>  Generating moc_ctrlmenu.cpp
> 2>  Generating moc_infoWin.cpp
> 2>  Generating moc_imageDisplay.cpp
> 2>  Generating moc_imageDisplayGL.cpp
> 2>  Generating moc_imageDisplayQt.cpp
> 2>  Generating moc_multiWindow.cpp
> 2>  Generating moc_videoGeneric.cpp
> ...
>
> with the moc_*.cpp files being regenerated.  If I don't manually delete
> the yuv_player_automoc.cpp file then the moc_*.cpp files are never
> regenerated even if they are out of date compared to the header files they
> are generated from.
>
> --
> Glenn
>
>
>
> On 29 April 2013 17:15, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net>wrote:
>
>> On Monday 29 April 2013, Glenn Coombs wrote:
>> > I added these lines:
>> >
>> > set_directory_properties(
>> >     PROPERTIES ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES
>> >     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/abc.txt"
>> > )
>> >
>> > # check the location where abc.txt is supposed to be deleted from
>> > message("CURRENT_BINARY_DIR: ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")
>> >
>> > to the end of my CMakeLists.txt and then created abc.txt in the cmake
>> build
>> > directory.  I can confirm that the abc.txt file was not deleted by a
>> clean
>> > solution.  I tried this with Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2008
>> > (both installs are the Express editions) and the results were identical.
>>
>> I don't have Windows here so this is kind of hard for me...
>> Did you do a "complete" clean or just a clean of some part of the whole
>> project ?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
>
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