Re: [CMake] Generating CMake scripts from Visual Studio solutions projects?
Hi, On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:00:10PM -0500, cmake-requ...@cmake.org wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:48:28 -0500 From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CMake] Generating CMake scripts from Visual Studio solutions projects? To: Eric Noulard eric.noul...@gmail.com Cc: CMake ML cmake@cmake.org Message-ID: CAEhu1-56yW9fE5Xm-Bng+Y=wv+ig30wbcdv9dcuz2hgrity...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Did you try the tool listed in the Wiki http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake#Visual_Studio I would be interested in if you get any of these to work well with non trivial projects. When I last looked at some of these (probably 2+ years ago so things may have changed) they did not work well with my complex visual studio projects. 2+ years? That could easily end up like a Yugo vs. Porsche surprise ;) The original vcproj2cmake script was composed of 300 lines, and now the project is to the tune of around 4000 lines. I've been doing more intensive updates in recent times, carrying out parser - generator stages separation and trying to get VS10 .vcxproj support finished real soonish. For the (rather elaborate) needs of my largish build tree, current .vcproj live conversion support is very adequate, however there are still several weak or potentially even completely missing areas left (not to mention that differing requirements due to cross-platform extension can easily mean that the base dataset itself as found in VS project files is somewhat insufficient from the get go - which my extensible hooks and mappings are supposed to be taking care of). There's also a fair share of dark corners on CMake side as well, though (include_directories() etc.), thus it's obvious that certain areas of build systems often are considered to be less important. Due to still very high development activity (i.e., many new features and corrections arriving), at least for new users I'd _currently_ recommend starting by directly checking out the experimental_unverified branch; some longer-time users might need more stability and could thus keep subscribing to experimental, whereas master currently is (too?) old. If someone would like to create CMakeLists with it or use .vcproj in their build, then simply ponder making use of the converter (and possibly let me know of any issues or ideas that might turn up). Thanks, Andreas Mohr -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
Re: [CMake] Generating CMake scripts from Visual Studio solutions projects?
2+ years? That could easily end up like a Yugo vs. Porsche surprise ;) The original vcproj2cmake script was composed of 300 lines, and now the project is to the tune of around 4000 lines. I have a lot of 5 to 15 year old MFC code(applications, dlls, static libraries) that I would like to use this on. I could give it a test sometime next week. John -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
[CMake] Generating CMake scripts from Visual Studio solutions projects?
Is there a tool to do this? All I'm looking for is something to generate a first, basic pass of the script. Doesn't have to be pretty, I just want the majority of the work to be automated. Preprocessor defines, compiler flags, include directories, dependencies, all of this should be generated in the CMake script for me, I can manage cleanup and reorganization from there. - Robert Dailey -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
Re: [CMake] Generating CMake scripts from Visual Studio solutions projects?
2012/2/17 Robert Dailey rcdai...@gmail.com: Is there a tool to do this? All I'm looking for is something to generate a first, basic pass of the script. Doesn't have to be pretty, I just want the majority of the work to be automated. Preprocessor defines, compiler flags, include directories, dependencies, all of this should be generated in the CMake script for me, I can manage cleanup and reorganization from there. Did you try the tool listed in the Wiki http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake#Visual_Studio I cannot recommend any since I'm not a Visual Studio user but you may start from there... -- Erk Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
Re: [CMake] Generating CMake scripts from Visual Studio solutions projects?
Did you try the tool listed in the Wiki http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake#Visual_Studio I would be interested in if you get any of these to work well with non trivial projects. When I last looked at some of these (probably 2+ years ago so things may have changed) they did not work well with my complex visual studio projects. John -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
Re: [CMake] Generating CMake scripts from Visual Studio solutions projects?
I would second that sentiment. We had more luck with writing a script to generate CMakeLists.txt file from our source tree and knowledge of what we wanted plus hand tuning the primary CMakeLists.txt file. Aaron Meadows -Original Message- From: cmake-boun...@cmake.org [mailto:cmake-boun...@cmake.org] On Behalf Of John Drescher Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:48 AM To: Eric Noulard Cc: CMake ML Subject: Re: [CMake] Generating CMake scripts from Visual Studio solutions projects? Did you try the tool listed in the Wiki http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake#Visual_Studio I would be interested in if you get any of these to work well with non trivial projects. When I last looked at some of these (probably 2+ years ago so things may have changed) they did not work well with my complex visual studio projects. John -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake This email was sent to you by Thomson Reuters, the global news and information company. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Thomson Reuters. -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
