Re: [CMake] ExternalProject_Add, race conditions, MSVC_IDE
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles pgqui...@elpauer.orgwrote: Hello, I've been using ExternalProject_Add and I have to say IMHO it's one of the best features added to CMake in the last years. It works great for me on Linux (makefiles), MSVC2010 (NMake Makefiles) and Mac (makefiles). Together with a small .sh (Unix) and a .bat (Windows), you can make your project full bootstrappable and only depend on the user having a C++ compiler (not even CMake, which has been the biggest argument against CMake by autotools fans) Now to the bad news: - I have experienced lots of race conditions on Windows, both with Cygwin and NMake What sort of race conditions? And how do you know they are race conditions? - I've tried to use it with MSVC solutions but if fails miserable with errors about cmd.exe. Is this by design or is it a bug? We do not intend to fail miserably, so I'm going to say that it's not by design... but if you are specifying commands that will not succeed, then perhaps it's by design on your side... :-) Can you send a small example project that fails miserably, or is it only the large complicated full project build that fails miserably? (Can you run the ExternalProject test from the CMake test suite and have it succeed in your environment?) Thanks, David I'm using the latest CMake snapshot. The project is here: http://gitorious.org/winstng See 'winst' and 'winst.bat' if you are interested in the boostrapping part. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [CMake] ExternalProject_Add, race conditions, MSVC_IDE
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:50 AM, David Cole david.c...@kitware.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles pgqui...@elpauer.org wrote: Hello, I've been using ExternalProject_Add and I have to say IMHO it's one of the best features added to CMake in the last years. It works great for me on Linux (makefiles), MSVC2010 (NMake Makefiles) and Mac (makefiles). Together with a small .sh (Unix) and a .bat (Windows), you can make your project full bootstrappable and only depend on the user having a C++ compiler (not even CMake, which has been the biggest argument against CMake by autotools fans) Now to the bad news: - I have experienced lots of race conditions on Windows, both with Cygwin and NMake What sort of race conditions? And how do you know they are race conditions? I would be interested too, the Titan project has quite a few external projects and I have not seen pathological race conditions. There are occasional issues, such as an 8192 character limit on command line arguments, and a recent change in CMake master alleviates this by optionally using a file to pass the majority of initial cache arguments into the external projects - again Titan has examples of this. - I've tried to use it with MSVC solutions but if fails miserable with errors about cmd.exe. Is this by design or is it a bug? We do not intend to fail miserably, so I'm going to say that it's not by design... but if you are specifying commands that will not succeed, then perhaps it's by design on your side... :-) I have built Titan successfully using MSVC 2008 and 2008 Express IDE and NMake based builds. Quite a few of the Titan developers routinely use the MSVC IDE as far as I am aware. I think there are other projects out there using MSVS and the IDE solutions too although I think there are still (maybe) some issues with 2010. Marcus ___ 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
[CMake] ExternalProject_Add, race conditions, MSVC_IDE
Hello, I've been using ExternalProject_Add and I have to say IMHO it's one of the best features added to CMake in the last years. It works great for me on Linux (makefiles), MSVC2010 (NMake Makefiles) and Mac (makefiles). Together with a small .sh (Unix) and a .bat (Windows), you can make your project full bootstrappable and only depend on the user having a C++ compiler (not even CMake, which has been the biggest argument against CMake by autotools fans) Now to the bad news: - I have experienced lots of race conditions on Windows, both with Cygwin and NMake - I've tried to use it with MSVC solutions but if fails miserable with errors about cmd.exe. Is this by design or is it a bug? I'm using the latest CMake snapshot. The project is here: http://gitorious.org/winstng See 'winst' and 'winst.bat' if you are interested in the boostrapping part. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ 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
