[Insight-developers] How to do an experimental build on MSVC?

[David Cole]

You're not doing anything "wrong" but when you first click "Yes" to reload
the solution and issue a new "Build Solution" command, CMake issues a new
"Build Solution" command...... Rather, you should click "No" and do the
"project only build" that you were trying to do on "Experimental" in the
first place.

(There must have been a CMake change that caused a re-configure and the
prompting about changed solution files....)

There is a way to submit an experimental dashboard and avoid the Visual
Studio reload problem entirely: do it from the command line rather than from
within Visual Studio.

First, exit all running instances of Visual Studio. Then, in the binary tree
for ITK (the build directory), execute the command:
ctest -VV -D Experimental

Or, if ctest is not in your PATH environment variable, execute it with the
full path to ctest:
"C:\Program Files\CMake 2.6\bin\ctest" -VV -D Experimental


HTH,
David



On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Niels Dekker <niels-xtk at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Alexandre GOUAILLARD wrote:
>
>> You have an "Experimental" project in msvc. Right-click on it and
>> choose "project->build project only".
>>
>
> Thank you, Alex.  Unfortunately things don't go very smoothly.  I
> double-click on "ITK.sln", and it is opened by Visual Studio 2005.  When I
> then right-click "Experimental", and do "project->build project only", the
> Output window tells me:
>
> 1>------ Build started: Project: Experimental, Configuration: Debug Win32
> 1>   Site: 4-LKEB-IVUS-ND
> 1>   Build name: Win32-vs8
> 1>Create new tag: 20080527-1354 - Experimental
> 1>Start processing tests
> 1>Configure project
> 1>   Each . represents 1024 bytes of output
>
> But then a popup window pops up:
>
>  CMake has regenerated 18 .sln and/or .vcproj files.
>  Click:
>   -- Yes to reload the whole solution and issue a new Build Solution
> command.
>   -- No to reload the whole solution and stop the build.
>   -- Cancel to do nothing.
>  (After clicking Cancel, Visual Studio will likely prompt to reload each
> .vcproj file individually, resulting in 18 more dialogs...)
>
>
> When I press Yes, another popup window pops up, saying: "The solution
> cannot be closed while a build is in progress. Do you want to stop the
> build?"
>
> I press Yes again.
>
> The Output window says:
> 1>------ Skipped Build: Project: NightlyMemoryCheck, Configuration: Debug
> Win32
> 1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> 2>------ Skipped Build: Project: PACKAGE, Configuration: Debug Win32
> 2>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> 3>------ Skipped Build: Project: Continuous, Configuration: Debug Win32
> 3>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> 4>------ Skipped Build: Project: Experimental, Configuration: Debug Win32
> 4>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> 5>------ Skipped Build: Project: Nightly, Configuration: Debug Win32
> 5>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> 6>------ Skipped Build: Project: RUN_TESTS, Configuration: Debug Win32
> 6>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> 7>------ Skipped Build: Project: INSTALL, Configuration: Debug Win32
> 7>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
> ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 392 up-to-date, 7 skipped
>
>
> That's it!  Nothing tested, nothing submitted!  Any clue about what I'm
> doing wrong?
>
>
> BTW, my cygwin experimental build *did* finish its job.  Telling me about a
> little GCC-incompatibility in my proposed itk::ExceptionObject patch. ("a
> class-key must be used when declaring a friend")  Excuse me for those 345
> build errors at www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight#(Experimental)!  I'll surely fix this one before committing...
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Niels
>
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