[CMake] Make Visual Studio stop on error

[frodak17]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:16 AM Rob Boehne <robb at datalogics.com> wrote:

> All,
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> We’re really loving CMake here! And we’ve been slowly figuring out how to
> make things work for our legacy C/C++ project.
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> One improvement we want to make is to tell cmake to generate Visual Studio
> projects that stop building when a dependency target fails.
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> Can something be set in the Visual Studio generator, or on the cmake
> –build command line to do that?
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> The reason is that when a target fails, it keeps compiling 8000 source
> files, and we have to search Jenkins (web-based) logs of stdout/stderr to
> find what actually failed.  It also chews up resources with no benefit.
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> Thanks,
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> Rob
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It seems that Visual Studio requires an addon to support this kind of
behaviour.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EinarEgilsson.StopOnFirstBuildError
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