Re: [Boost-cmake] [wtf] /build /all modularizes your code on windows?

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] [wtf] /build /all modularizes your code on windows?
From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-25 10:09:48

Brad King wrote:
> troy d. straszheim wrote:
>> Juergen Hunold just mentioned on IRC that he'd used the commandline 
>> interface on windows to make '/build /all', and his code got 
>> 'modularized' (a word I'm beginning to hate) and significantly damaged. 
> 
> The problem is that "/all" builds all targets in the Visual Studio solution
> file.  CMake's equivalent to the Makefile "all" target in VS is ALL_BUILD.
> It is a target that depends on the same targets that would be in the 
> Makefile
> "all" target.  Building the solution with "/all" bypasses this and builds
> everything, which ignores the EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL properties in CMake.  There
> is no way CMake can prevent this, so just tell users not to do it.
> 

Okay, thanks, good information.  I think I'll turn off the automatic 
generation of the modularize target on windows....

-t