[CMake] CMake Server Mode and USE_FOLDERS

[Michael Jackson]

Actually, my comments were spurred on from a discussion on the QtCreator 
list. I am *very* happy with the layout inside of VS2015 that we have 
been able to generate based on the USE_FOLDERS property. QtCreator tends 
to use the Ninja generator to generate the actual build system. 
QtCreator just calls "cmake --build . ...." when it needs to build your 
project. And since they use the "Ninja" generator (which I think is user 
settable) and Ninja does not support the USE_FOLDERS notion, that 
USE_FOLDERS would need to be implemented in the Ninja generator so that 
CMAKE-Server mode would pass that information? I don't know how 
separated the Cmake-server code model is from the actual generator.

--
Mike Jackson


Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc via CMake wrote:
> I can only speak about VS, which currently neither with the VS nor
> the Ninja generator use the FOLDERS property to lay out the targets
> inside the Solution Explorer. Instead, it maintains the folder
> structure of the CMake project. This was an intentional design
> decision from their part (at least for the time being), due to CMake
> folks primarily being used to the command line, thus they think in
> therms of the folder structure, not the logical layout of the CMake
> scripts.
>
> There is a tendency though of hooking all CMake notions into the IDE,
>  such as CTests show up Test Explorer. Reach out to the VS CMake team
> and let them know that there is such need, perhaps controlled through
> a switch.
>
> *Feladó: *Michael Jackson <mailto:mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>
> *Elküldve: *2017. július 4., kedd 4:08 *Címzett: *Cmake Mailing List
> <mailto:cmake at cmake.org> *Tárgy: *[CMake] CMake Server Mode and
> USE_FOLDERS
>
> I was just exploring in a command line the CMake Server mode in 3.8
> (I
>
> have not tried 3.9 yet) just to see what gets output and I was
> wondering
>
> if CMake-Server mode supports "set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY
> USE_FOLDERS
>
> ON)" for any generator? I was specifically using the "ninja"
> generator
>
> for my experiments. I suspect not since Ninja itself does not have
> the
>
> concept of this but I though I would inquire.
>
> If IDE's that are now relying on CMake-server had this information
> it
>
> would allow the IDE to present the project in such a way that the
>
> developers intended or laid out. I know we put a lot of time into
> our
>
> CMake files so that the Visual Studio and Xcode projects are
> reasonably
>
> organized when you open them instead of just listing 250 targets.
>
> Thanks for any insights.
>
> Mike Jackson
>
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