[CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

[Zaak Beekman]

Thanks Jano, that's the work flow I was considering.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:33 PM Jano Svitok <jan.svitok at gmail.com> wrote:

> You don't have to install cmake. Just get the zip version, unzip in
> somewhere along your sources and you are done.
> I'm not sure whether any runtime dlls are needed, but I suppose not.
>
> We use cmake like that. We've committed a copy in our git repo, and have a
> simple means to update cmake for everyone
> in the team at once.
>
> Jano
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Zaak Beekman <zbeekman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ha, yeah that’s an option. The problem is that they’re not “my”
>> contractors. They are the client’s contractors. We’ll see.
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:52 PM Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Zaak Beekman <zbeekman at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The situation is that we have a client who works with other contractors
>>>> who use almost exclusively windows and MSVS. This client wants to
>>>> distribute MSVS solution files with the source code so that other
>>>> contractors don’t have to install cmake. (There are some restrictions/red
>>>> tape for installing additional software on the contractor machines…)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why not distribute CMake as source code? Compile it so that they don't
>>> have to "install" it.
>>>
>>> On the other hand Visual Studio 2017 comes with their own version of
>>> CMake! Just make sure your contractors use VS2017 :D
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Cristian.
>>>
>>>
>>
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