Sorry, the .sln is what I meant by "the solution file generated by CMake". Thanks for catching that, it wasn't clear the way I wrote it. =D English fail!
When I was smashing around in the solution file to try and get ALL_BUILD to be the default project but also have it stored in the PREDEFINED_TARGETS_FOLDER, I couldn't make sense of the choices it made based on the ordering. Really, Default Project doesn't make much sense in any case beyond the most simple development effort. I was trying to find someone that knew why it's such a big requirement to have ALL_BUILD set as the default. That was apparently the reason the change for Solution Folders which put ALL_BUILD in the PREDEFINED_TARGETS_FOLDER was reverted. As the author of that patch commented, ALL_BUILD doesn't even do anything if you "run" it in the debugger, so why is it such a big deal to have it the Default Project? Aaron C. Meadows -----Original Message----- From: cmake-boun...@cmake.org [mailto:cmake-boun...@cmake.org] On Behalf Of Bill Hoffman Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:23 AM To: cmake@cmake.org Subject: Re: [CMake] How to change default target in solution? On 3/11/2011 9:56 AM, aaron.mead...@thomsonreuters.com wrote: > You can't. > > The default target is stored in the .suo file. That file is generated > by visual studio when it loads the solution file. The rules that Visual > studio uses for chosing the default target are not published and don't > seem to make a lot of sense. The reason that ALL_BUILD is marked as the > default target has to do with the order of projects listed in the > solution file generated by CMake. That order is no adjustable in CMake, > and other factors can change the behavior. > > I had a conversation on the list this week about it already, with > regards to the project folders and getting ALL_BUILD to be placed in the > default cmake projects folder. I played around with the generated > solution file, forcing ALL_BUILD into that folder manually, and it then > chose the INSTALL target as the default, even though all I had done was > add a refrence to the ALL_BUILD project in the folder grouping. Weird. > > You'll just have to chose the default target manually after loading the > solution. > Actually, I think that VS picks the default target based on the order that it shows up in the .sln file. I have never gotten around to verifying this or seeing if there was a way to add a property that would do the re-order. But, if this does work, it might actually be possible to implement this. -Bill _______________________________________________ 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
