Re: [boost] Cmake

Subject: Re: [boost] Cmake
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-24 16:00:15

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Rene Rivera via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I've seen the innards, surface, and operation of the VS and Xcode
> projects
> > generated by cmake and I'd loath to to use them.
>
> I can't speak for Xcode but I've been using the VS projects for a
> while now and they are great. I've written a couple of quality-of-life
> functions to help group source code into the folders. Check it out:
> http://i.imgur.com/dBWLuUn.png
>
> Can you be more specific about what issues you have with generated VS
> projects? Perhaps they are easily addressed.
>

One of the issues that I've seen is that the generated project files are
just shells around cmake invocations of all kinds. As opposed to direct
project declarations. Which means that they are susceptible to parallel
build bugs in cmake and make it awkward to deal with them past just
building.

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