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

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Niels,


This happens because, as part of the build, it was found
that the configuration files needed to be updated, and
therefore CMake needed to be run again.

When CMake is launched from Visual Studio, CMake regenerates
the project files, and since their timestamp on disk changes,
visual studio tries to load the project files them again.

Visual Studio asks you if you want to load them, just to tell
you later that the projects can not be loaded while a build is
in progress. (if you find this illogical, wait until you start
using Windows Vista...)


All this is annoying,... but normal.  :-/


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Here are two suggestions to avoid this problem.


A) Close Visual Studio, and run CMake to configure
    your build by considering any recent changes.

    Then load the .sln file in visual studio and
    run the experimental by right-clicking in the
    project and selecting "build".

    In this way, any needed update of the configuration
    is done outside of Visual Studio during your CMake
    run. (pre-emtive configuration)



OR (exclusive)


B) Run CTest from a command line (e.g. MS_DOS or Cygwin shell).


    like:

    cd into the binary tree of ITK,

    then

    /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/CMake\ 2.4/bin/ctest -D Experimental




I prefer to use option "B"...




    Regards,



        Luis


---------------------
Niels Dekker 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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