Thanks for the response Brad! I would be interested in the JSON format. Do you have any opinions on what that would look like or would you just like to see some implementation before proceding?
-----Original Message----- From: Brad King [mailto:brad.k...@kitware.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 5:22 AM To: Olmstead, Don <don.olmst...@sony.com> Cc: cmake-developers@cmake.org Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] VS Toolchain Support On 08/23/2016 01:58 PM, Olmstead, Don wrote: > is there any work being done to more accurately create project files > for different toolchains? No one is actively working on it AFAIK. The central tracking issue for this is here: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/16153 Basically one needs to add a bunch more flag tables and then teach the generators to choose a table based on the toolset rather than the generator. The additional tables could be hard-coded in the C++ source. Alternatively one could design a JSON format to look up the tables from some resource directory that comes with CMake. That would allow additional tables to be added without re-compiling. I don't think we should allow projects to provide the files themselves though because we should reserve the right to refactor them at will. -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers