[CMake] Creating one Visual Studio solution for many configurations and platforms

Tyler Roscoe tyler at cryptio.net
Fri Jun 5 12:41:14 EDT 2009


First, the thread I created about this question on Monday:
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2009-June/029805.html

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:57:34AM -0400, David Cole wrote:
> It is not possible with present CMake, although, in my mind it would be a
> reasonable feature request for CMake's Visual Studio generator to support
> multiple architecture solution/project files. If the native build tool
> supports a given feature, then CMake might reasonably be expected to take
> advantage of that feature if there is enough demand for it within the CMake
> community.
> Visual Studio developers are used to having multiple configurations and
> multiple architectures all build-able from within a single solution file.

I agree with all this, particularly about what VS devs are accustomed to
seeing. I haven't even really rolled out our CMake system yet and devs
are already complaining about the win32/x64 situation :).

David, should I open an issue in the tracker?

tyler


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