Ok, Im already using the nightly build (from Tuesday I believe), as I discovered a bug in CMake yesterday. I will bug M$ too :-)
/A On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:03 PM, David Cole <david.c...@kitware.com> wrote: > For Visual Studio generators, CMake does *NO* depedency analysis. It > generates solution and project files such that Visual Studio can do > all the dependency analysis and decide what to re-build when files > change. > > My advice to you would be: > - use only CMake 2.8.3 or newer (a nightly development build of CMake) > with Visual Studio 10 -- CMake 2.8.2 and earlier had significant bugs > related to VS10 that have since been resolved... > - using a newer CMake, isolate the problem to a minimally reproducible > case and then report a bug in the bug tracker about it including the > steps to reproduce the problem > > Reply here again and point us to the bug. > > > HTH, > David > > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Anders Backman <ande...@cs.umu.se> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I have a problem where I have a project of C++ headers and source files > > which are built into a .lib .dll. > > Now this works just fine with CMake 2.8.x and VisualStudio 2008. > > I press F7 everything builds. I press F7 again, it is all built, nothing > to > > be done. > > But now when I move over to vs2010, I get into problems where no matter > how > > I build the project, it constantly want to rebuild everything. > > I have tried both 'msbuild project.sln' from the command line, as well as > > build (F7) inside of VisualStudio as well as using Incredibuild. The > result > > is the same. If I press F7, it builds everything as it was not built > before. > > I did some googling on the issue, and some suggest that there is a file > in > > the project (header) which does not exist on disk, causing the problem. > > We do file(glob) on all files, so a file which is not found, should not > be > > part of the project. > > Right now, it seems to be hard to reduce the problem. When I start from > the > > full project, 107 files, it want to rebuild everything. > > When I reduce the problem, I can get down to one single file, still it > wants > > to build it. Its a c file, and there is nothing special about it. I even > > managed to reduce that down to one function, no includes. still the same > > problem. > > If I copy the relevant files (a few cmakelists.txt and the directory > > structure, including the two files (.h .c) it builds as it should again. > > I tried to run cmake and generate vs2008 files, that works. Open them in > > vs2010, build, then that works (with the two files only). > > > > So anyway, before I put you all to sleep, as far as I know, there are two > > dependency parsers involved here: > > - CMake runs through source files and generates dependencies, right? > > - THen visual studio does the same (generating the External dependencies > > folder in the project). Now there is SOMETHING wrong in either one, or > both > > or none related to VS2010. > > Does someone have any hints on how to debug this problem? I have spent > > substantial time, and I cant seem to get anywhere. > > I cant reduce it to something I can post on the list, as it just > magically > > works when I want to rip it out. > > At one point, I had 3 cmakelists, each with about 3 lines. 2 source files > > (.h .c), I did clean on CMakeCache.txt between each cmake . run, loaded > the > > project build and got the error. Fairly simple scene. But as soon as I > try > > to move that to another dir, it fails. > > Thankful for any advice on the matter. > > > > -- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > > > --
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