[CMake] disabling the cache

Jesper Eskilson jesper at eskilson.se
Thu Nov 8 04:50:19 EST 2007


Bill Hoffman wrote:

> So, I did look at how to fix this some.  I have a c# program that can
> force a running visual studio process to close and reload the solution
> it has.  The idea would be to have cmake run this when cmake is run as
> part of the build.  However, visual studio has a neat trick of killing
> all processes launched as part of a build.  So, what happens is the
> reload c# program closes the solution, and VS kills it before it can
> reload the project.  The only way around this is to run some sort of
> cmake IDE VS reload server, that cmake can contact and ask it to force a
> reload.  Does this sound worth while?  

It does to me. I'd love it if the project regeneration worked so that
users would not need to "build twice" for VS to reload the new projects.
>From that perspective I'd say that it is definitely worthwhile, since it
removes a cognitive burden of my users (which ultimately means happier
users and less interrupting questions to me).

> It could also unload/load, and
> build.  However, I am not sure we want to restart the build.

--
/Jesper



More information about the CMake mailing list