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

[Bill Hoffman]

On Nov 21, 2011 3:41 PM, "Brad King" <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>

That is kind of what we do with xcode and make.  Does nmake install with
express versions?
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