[CMake] Visual Studio reload projects

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Sep 4 12:19:39 EDT 2007


Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>
>> I, too, use Emacs. However, do not be oblivious to the fact that an
>> nmake build can take around five times longer than an IDE build.
>>     
>
> Performance is one reason, yes -- especially in these multicore times;
> nmake cannot handle parallell builds -- but the most (or only)
> compelling reason to use Visual Studio as opposed to Emacs + command
> line builds is that the Visual Studio debugger is superior to all other
> debuggers available on Windows.
>
>   
I use gmake with the "Unix Makefile" generator and cl as the compiler.   
gmake does have parallel builds.
I use the patched cygwin gmake from here:

http://*www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe

-Bill

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