Ha that actually seems like a totally separate bug.
>From what I understand - if "add_custom_command()" is not associated with
any target and is just given a command it is supposed to run at build time
every time the build is initiated, but with the Visual Studio generator it
seems to just skip
I haven't tried it out but I'm not exactly surprised it wouldn't work with
Visual Studio 2017.
It seems to be similar to the issue mentioned here:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/54557801/1028434
The problem I noticed in the case of the StackOverflow question,
"add_custom_target(testcmake2 ALL)"
I have been following the examples in the "CMake Cookbook" by Radovan Bast
and Roberto Di Remigio and came across one example that doesn't appear to
work right on Windows.
The source code for these example can be found here:
https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook
Chapter-06/Recipe-07 is