[cmake-developers] VS 2010/MSbuild's custom build tool issues and a proposal

[Brad King]

On 11/21/2011 3:33 PM, James Bigler wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com <mailto:brad.king at kitware.com>> wrote:
>     On 11/18/2011 12:50 PM, James Bigler wrote:
>         What I'm envisioning is developing a new custom build tool,
>         call it CMake Custom Command (or CCC for short)
>
>     Would the custom commands in the project files just invoke this tool on every build?
>
> Yes, any custom command in the project would invoke the same rule file.
 > Think of it as replacing VS's "interesting" custom build command rule with our own.

I've thought about this idea a few times before in the context of custom
commands with build-time implicit dependency scanning.  It's essentially
a "make" tool, isn't it?  Since "nmake" always comes with VS, perhaps it
can be utilized for this.

-Brad