[CMake] Make Visual Studio stop on error

[J Decker]

well you can just ctrl-break and stop it.
a lot of times changing things doesn't cause everything to rebuild, so
while fixing that small nuisance ... ya nevermind.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 2:06 PM Rob Boehne <robb at datalogics.com> wrote:

> Thank you!
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> But wow, I’m shocked that it can’t do this.  It’s surprising that it’s not
> the default, let alone needs an add-on.
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> *From: *CMake <cmake-bounces at cmake.org> on behalf of frodak17 <
> frodak17 at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, April 12, 2019 at 9:33 AM
> *Cc: *"cmake at cmake.org" <cmake at cmake.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [CMake] Make Visual Studio stop on error
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> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:16 AM Rob Boehne <robb at datalogics.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EinarEgilsson.StopOnFirstBuildError
> <https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmarketplace.visualstudio.com%2Fitems%3FitemName%3DEinarEgilsson.StopOnFirstBuildError&data=02%7C01%7Crobb%40datalogics.com%7Cc59cc36244de44307fc808d6bf53cc3b%7Cfc3d8cdfd6994f23ae232659c3da4749%7C0%7C0%7C636906763963142905&sdata=xoBeM7YQrU6SdSctjX%2BxK4Ebxd4cmkd1bIJTuRI%2BNAQ%3D&reserved=0>
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