visual studio ide problems

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 17 April 2006 17:37, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 04:58 PM 4/14/2006, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> >There are some PATH issues with visual studio and kdelibs.
> >
> >To successfully build kdelibs with the ide, you have to have perl
> >and the qt dll's in your PATH during the build.  The visual studio
> >IDE has its own environment.  It can be set, but it is not a common
> >thing to do.  (In fact, I am not even sure where the menu is to
> >set the PATH, but I am sure I could find it.)   So, most developers
> >will run cmake, then load the solution and try to build.   They will
> >get errors, and give up.  Even if you run the IDE from a shell, it does
> > not get that environment.   I have some ideas for fixes:
> >
> >1. For windows, every tool that is run during the build, gets run
> >from a driver .bat file.  The driver bat file is a configured
> >file that has the correct paths built into it.
> >
> >kdewindriver.bat ${KDE4_DCOPIDL2CPP_EXECUTABLE} ....
> >
> >kdewindriver.bat ${KDE4_DCOPIDL_EXECUTABLE}  ....
> >
> >It would work with the nmake and ide builds reducing the environment
> >setup needed to run the build.
> >
> >2. I add some sort of global variable that allows you to set PATH
> >in ALL custom commands in CMake.  It is possible in a custom command
> >to do set PATH=c:/perl/bin;%PATH% as part of the command.
> >
> >SET(CMAKE_CUSTOM_COMMAND_WINDOWS_PATH  /path/to/qt/bin;/path/to/perl)
> >
> >This would work only with VS IDE.
> >
> >pros:  It is a small fix to cmake.
> >cons:  It is specific to only one generator.
> >
> >This is much like the rpath problem on unix.
> >I am thinking that 1 maybe a better way to go.
> >Any other ideas?
>
> I have another idea.   Perhaps this is similar to the RPATH problem.
> Maybe a cmake script should be used to launch kde programs during
> the build process.   So, kde4_exec_via_sh should not be a shell
> script, but rather a .cmake script run with cmake -P.

What would this improve compared to a batch file/shell script ?
IMO creating a batch file similar to the shell scripts under UNIX and setting 
PATH sounds good.

Bye
Alex
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