[CMake] Visual Studio 2013, increamental builds, intermediate directories and long target names

[Dan Kegel]

Did you try the workaround suggested in the first link you gave, i.e.

set( RatherLongLibraryName_GUID_CMAKE <generated GUID> CACHE INTERNAL
"remove this and Visual Studio will mess up incremental builds")


On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:04 AM,  <david_bjornbak at keysight.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, we're hitting an issue migrating from VS 2012 to VS 2103 with
> Cmake working with long target names.
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> Apparently the only know workarounds to the issues listed below is to
> shorten target names but,  we're working with fairly long set of projects
> and it's not practical to rename the target names involved.   Imaging going
> through something twice the size of VTK and changing target names and
> keeping the meaning of the names.
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> I didn't look into the cmake source code around this yet but, I wanted to
> see if this issue is viewed as a Microsoft limitation that's not practical
> to code around or not.
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28959488/how-to-enable-incremental-builds-for-vs-2013-with-cmake-and-long-target-names
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29726394/warning-msb8028-the-intermediate-directory-debug-contains-files-shared-from
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> ++David->Bjornbak;
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