Hi, Sorry but it's not clear to me: when you say "using devenv" do you mean opening the IDE, or do you mean calling devenv form the command-line like "devenv /build Debug mysolution.sln"? The former is slow due to IntelliSense, ReSharper, etc but the latter is very fast.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:59 PM, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are two reasons this is an issue (for me) > > 1) using devenv to build is MUCH slower on many of the projects than > just using MSBuild. ... yes I know, longer build times mean more time > at the water cooler or whatever... > > 2) Using devenv, each project that gets built becomes a > most-recently-used file for visual studio, so the things I'm actually > working on (not the dozens of projects that get built with automated > method) get lost; they get shoved off the list of recently used files > pretty quick. > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:22 AM, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Okay I saw the comments in the platform scripts about fortran, but >> maybe a symbol could be added to maybe prefer msbuild; there are a >> couple like that for InstallSystemRuntimeLibraries or whatever that >> was... so you can control the behavior. The other alternative might >> be add additional options for generators that prefer one or the other. >> >> if( PREFER_MSBUILD ) >> >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles >> <pgqui...@elpauer.org> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> It will probably introduce other problems: >>> >>> MsBuild woes >>> http://www.elpauer.org/?p=955 >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:49 AM, J Decker <d3c...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> shouldn't cmake use 'msbuild' instead of 'devenv.com' or 'devenv.exe'? >>>> >>>> I have a feeling that would solve one of my issues with visual studio, >>>> in that after building a long chain of cmake projects using visual >>>> studio, all of the most recent project references are updated to being >>>> the projects that were built, thereby losing the projects I'm actually >>>> working on. >>> >>> -- >>> 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://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers -- 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://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers