Can you make it work by running msbuild directly?
What about building using visual studio from the command line?
Scott
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From: CMake <cmake-boun...@cmake.org> On Behalf Of n...@appletonaudio.com
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2019 21:02
To: cmake@cmake.org
Subject: [CMake] Different behavior between building using "cmake --build" and
building in Visual Studio
Hello,
I have a CMake project which is generating Visual Studio (VS2017) solutions
which can be compiled using the Visual Studio IDE but cannot be built from the
command line using "cmake --build".
The project contains a shared library which links against two static libraries.
The two static libraries are non-CMake projects with .vcproj files which are
generated using another (proprietary) build system. They are being included in
the project on Windows using the
include_external_msproject() command. These two projects do not have the
standard configuration names ("Debug","Release",etc) and their configurations
are mapped to the main CMake project's configurations using
MAP_IMPORTED_CONFIG_XXX properties. This all works very well using the VS IDE.
There are two things that happen which I find surprising when I run "cmake
--build":
1) It doesn't seem to automatically decide on the correct platform toolset
version to use. So running "cmake.exe --build . --config Debug"
ends up resulting in a build log containing lots of errors about missing tools.
I can fix this by manually specifiying the toolset version as:
"cmake.exe --build . --config Debug -- -property:PlatformToolset=v140"
(if anyone can hint to why this happens, I would be interested - but it is
secondary to the following issue) which results in:
2) The following issues in the build tool log:
"MY_DEVELOPMENT_PATH\PATH1\build\ALL_BUILD.vcxproj" (default target) (1)
->
"MY_DEVELOPMENT_PATH\PATH2\library_1.vcxproj" (default target) (3) ->
(PrepareForBuild target) ->
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(349,5):
error MSB8013: This project doesn't contain the Configuration and Platform
combination of Debug|Win32.
[MY_DEVELOPMENT_PATH\PATH2\dependent_library_1.vcxproj]
"MY_DEVELOPMENT_PATH\PATH1\build\ALL_BUILD.vcxproj" (default target) (1)
->
"MY_DEVELOPMENT_PATH\PATH3\library_2.vcxproj" (default target) (4) ->
C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(349,5):
error MSB8013: This project doesn't contain the Configuration and Platform
combination of Debug|Win32.
[MY_DEVELOPMENT_PATH\PATH3\dependent_library_2.vcxproj]
Where library_1 and library_2 correspond to the two static libraries.
Given the output, my guess is that the mapped configurations are not being
honoured anymore (while they are definitely being honoured when the project is
built inside Visual Studio). I would have assumed that CMake would invoke
msbuild/devenv on the created solution and things would work, but it does not
seem to be happening. Could anyone provide me with some information as to
whether this is a bug in CMake or if I am missing something bigger here?
Thanks!
Nick
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