[CMake] Visual Studio plugin help

[James Bigler]

I found a work around.

If you have a custom rule that generates an object file, I discovered
that you don't have to add the object file to the VS project.  VS will
use the output of the custom command in the linker if it recognizes
that it's an object file.  I was happy, because now I didn't have to
have a bunch of .obj file laying around my project.  Apparently this
made VS 2005 very unhappy when closing despite it creating the project
just fine.  VS 2008 worked as expected.

Any thoughts?  Does CMake do something special when I add the object
file to the solution?

James

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, James Bigler<jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, OK. I've narrowed it down a bit more.
>
> I don't think this is related to the plugin.
>
> In one of my projects, if I simply compile an already compiled project
> then exit, I get a crash.  I ported some of the CMake code from that
> project into a new one and now they are both crashing.  I didn't
> notice that this was correlated, since I've only been working on these
> two projects for the past little while.
>
> I'm not sure what I could be doing with my CMake script to cause VS to
> crash when exiting.
>
> I tried VS 2008, and it doesn't crash doing the same things I was doing in 2005.
>
> I've also verified that it crashes in XP32 with VS 2005 Team building
> a 32 bit build.
>
> I'm going to try and install 2005 Pro and see if it still crashes, but
> I don't think that will solve anything.
>
> James
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, James Bigler<jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM, David Cole<david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> In VS 2005, the file is in your "My Documents" folder of Windows, under
>>> "Visual Studio 2005/Projects/VSMacros80/CMakeMacros".
>>> If you remove it, CMake should put it back again next time it configures...
>>
>> This is fine.  I just wanted to make sure I had a "fresh" one.
>>
>>> Does the exception happen while you are closing an instance of Visual
>>> Studio? (Or might there be a previously crashed one still evident in the
>>> Task Manager or Process Explorer...?)
>>
>> I have seen it when closing an instance of Visual Studio (outside of
>> the CMake plugin), but I can't seem to get it to crash unless I've
>> used the plugin sometime in the past.
>>
>> I usually have to kill it through the task manager, because it gets
>> stuck in some strange state after it shows me the error dialog.
>>
>>> Have you rebooted lately?
>>
>> At least once today, and several times of the past while.  It doesn't
>> seem to help.
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:30 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Where is the VS plugin stored on disk?
>>>>
>>>> Can I remove it, and have CMake add it again?
>>>>
>>>> Somehow I managed to get my Visual Studio into a state where often
>>>> when the CMake plugin unloads the solution, VS crashes with the
>>>> following error:
>>>>
>>>> The server threw an exception. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105
>>>> (RPC_E_SERVERFAULT))
>>>>
>>>> I've tried to google around to see if this was just circumstantial
>>>> with unloading the project and has nothing to do with the plugin, but
>>>> I couldn't find anything applicable.
>>>>
>>>> I installed the following:
>>>>
>>>> VS 2005 8 Pro
>>>> VS 2008 9 Pro
>>>> CMake 2.6.4
>>>> VS 2005 8 Upgraded to Team
>>>> VS 2008 9 Upgraded to Team
>>>>
>>>> I haven't done a lot of testing with VS 2008 lately.  Most of the work
>>>> I've been doing lately has been with 2005, and it crashes frequently
>>>> but not always.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> James
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