On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:21 PM, James Bigler <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just noticed that MSBuild has support for dependency files.  These seem
> to work similarly to how you might augment a makefile with 'gcc -M'.  This
> would save a lot of reloading of projects that want to generate dependencies
> from build files, since the dependencies would be external to the project
> files.
>
> Does anyone know how this works and if CMake might be able to make use of
> this feature for custom targets?
>
> James
>

I opened a thread at the MSDN site:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/msbuild/thread/7a0696cf-fcc4-44ee-8444-096f64e538b6

Hopefully this might prevent additional reloads for projects that wish to
compute their source level dependencies.

James
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