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Currently we are planning to use VS2017 with a cmake project. Inside Visual Studio this works quite like a charm.
Now want to run our builds as part of CI on a dedicated build master running MSBuildTools.
Is it possible to directly run the build using the msbuild command, without creating solution files with cmake? Optimally, I would even use the CMakeSettings.json used from VS2017.
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CMake project files (such as CMakeLists. txt ) are consumed directly by Visual Studio for the purposes of IntelliSense and browsing. cmake.exe is invoked directly by Visual Studio for CMake configuration and build.
To build with just cmake change directory into where you want the binaries to be placed. For an in-place build you then run cmake and it will produce a CMakeCache. txt file that contains build options that you can adjust using any text editor.
Use the build-tool-mode of CMake for this. It uses the underlying default build tool which is MSBuild for Visual Studio Generators.
From the build directory call:
cmake --build . --target ALL_BUILD --config Release -- /nologo /verbosity:minimal /maxcpucount
and you get a fast, nearly quiet build. To install use INSTALL target, for running your tests if configured use RUN_TESTS target.
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