Hi Brad, > For `cmake --build` we already need to detect the generator used > for the build tree in order to ask it to construct the appropriate > command line. For the VS generator we could directly run the same > check that ZERO_CHECK would run in order to decide whether to regen > the build files first. That would avoid going through msbuild for > this step altogether.
Thanks for your answer. So if I understand correctly, you would avoid msbuild using msbuild for the up-to-date check and instead call something like (taken from ZERO_CHECK.vcxproj): cmake -H... -B.. --check-stamp-list CMakeFiles/generate.stamp.list This would work, but it would make all builds using 'cmake --build' more verbose as before actually starting the msbuild-build, this would always print an often large number of lines like: CMake does not need to re-run because .../CMakeFiles/generate.stamp is up-to-date. When using msbuild to build the zero_check target, you avoid this somehow as you make use of the dependency tracking offered by msbuild. I don't have a strong opinion on whether to use 'cmake -H -B...' or msbuild, but I would like to avoid cluttering normal build output with this information. Assuming we do not want to call msbuild, an option would be to remove the print statement if a stamp file is up to date? Or alternatively I could add an option '--verbose|-V' to cmake that would control whether to print them? Regards, Yves -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
