Re: [CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

2018-04-24 Thread Zaak Beekman
Hi Bill, Thanks for your response! Yes, I am aware of that MSVS has CMake integration starting in MSVS 2017, but for various reasons, the pace of upgrading or installing new software with the other contractors on the project is limited. Some are stuck with MSVS 2015 which does not yet have native

Re: [CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

2018-04-23 Thread Bill Hoffman
One thing to consider is that MS is now shipping CMake as part of VS.  So, if you can get your project to work with that version of VS, you should be all set. In fact you can have people just open the project and MS VS will run CMake for you. -Bill -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep

Re: [CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

2018-04-19 Thread Zaak Beekman
Thanks Jano, that's the work flow I was considering. On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:33 PM Jano Svitok wrote: > You don't have to install cmake. Just get the zip version, unzip in > somewhere along your sources and you are done. > I'm not sure whether any runtime dlls are

Re: [CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

2018-04-19 Thread Jano Svitok
You don't have to install cmake. Just get the zip version, unzip in somewhere along your sources and you are done. I'm not sure whether any runtime dlls are needed, but I suppose not. We use cmake like that. We've committed a copy in our git repo, and have a simple means to update cmake for

Re: [CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

2018-04-19 Thread Zaak Beekman
Ha, yeah that’s an option. The problem is that they’re not “my” contractors. They are the client’s contractors. We’ll see. On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:52 PM Cristian Adam wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Zaak Beekman wrote: > >> The situation

Re: [CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

2018-04-19 Thread Cristian Adam
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Zaak Beekman wrote: > The situation is that we have a client who works with other contractors > who use almost exclusively windows and MSVS. This client wants to > distribute MSVS solution files with the source code so that other > contractors

Re: [CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

2018-04-19 Thread Zaak Beekman
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:51 AM Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > Then your best choice is probably Premake (http://premake.github.io/) > No. Big project. Have build system. CMake has 1st class language support for Fortran. I can't introduce a LUA dependency. -- Powered by

Re: [CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

2018-04-19 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
19.04.2018, 18:46, "Zaak Beekman" : > Greetings fellow CMake users! > > While I know this topic has been discussed intermittently over the years I > was wondering if anyone had any further insight. > > The situation is that we have a client who works with other contractors