[CMake] Defer compiler to different file in Visual Studio

[Andreas Haferburg]

Bill, thank you for your replies.

I'll be writing a macro for Visual Studio then which finds the 
corresponding cpp file and compiles it.

Cheers
Andreas


On 12-Mar-12 10:26 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 3/12/2012 5:00 PM, Andreas Haferburg wrote:
>> Yea, that's pretty much what I've got so far. And yes, I realize that's
>> the way it's *supposed* to be set up. ;) I've posted my CMakeLists.txt
>> here if you want to have a look:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/a/9669388/872616
>>
>> The only time I would really like to have anything to do with generated
>> files is if something goes wrong with the generation, but not during
>> normal development. I'd like to set up the tool chain such that I only
>> have to touch the .lzz files, and the .hpp/.cpp would be completely
>> hidden away in the build dir. Just as normally you wouldn't want to have
>> anything to do with .obj files, you know?
> I don't think you can do that. However, you can make it a little nicer
> with this change:
>
> MAIN_DEPENDENCY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${filename}"
>
>
>
> From
> Note that MAIN_DEPENDENCY is completely optional and is used as a
> suggestion to visual studio about where to hang the custom command. In
> makefile terms this creates a new target in the following form:
>
> cmake --help-command add_custom_command
>
> OUTPUT: MAIN_DEPENDENCY DEPENDS
> COMMAND
>
> However, when you right click on A.lzz and it will run lzz, and not the
> full compiler cycle. You will have to right click on the generated .cpp
> file to run the actual compiler. There is no way to collapse that into
> one step.
>
> -Bill
>
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