On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:50 AM, David Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <[email protected]> > 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.
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