On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com>wrote:
> > On Nov 21, 2011 3:41 PM, "Brad King" <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote: > > > > On 11/21/2011 3:33 PM, James Bigler wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com<mailto: > brad.k...@kitware.com>> wrote: > >> On 11/18/2011 12:50 PM, James Bigler wrote: > >> What I'm envisioning is developing a new custom build tool, > >> call it CMake Custom Command (or CCC for short) > >> > >> Would the custom commands in the project files just invoke this tool > on every build? > >> > >> Yes, any custom command in the project would invoke the same rule file. > > > > > Think of it as replacing VS's "interesting" custom build command rule > with our own. > > > > I've thought about this idea a few times before in the context of custom > > commands with build-time implicit dependency scanning. It's essentially > > a "make" tool, isn't it? Since "nmake" always comes with VS, perhaps it > > can be utilized for this. > > > > > > That is kind of what we do with xcode and make. Does nmake install with > express versions? > This page seems to suggest so, but I'm having trouble determining this for certain, and I don't want to install it for fear of it messing up my existing VS installations.
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