使用命令行在 Visual Studio 2019 中打开 CMake 项目

Question

I use Visual Studio IDE to develop, VS C++ to compile, CMake to generate the project in VS and Ninja to build.

I have a script that clone a project from git server and automate several steps I need to perform before start working on it.

At the end of this script I would like to open the project in Visual Studio. Before I used to generate the VS solution instead and then use devenv with the sln file as a parameter to open it. But now that I use VS support for CMake if I use CMakeList.txt file as a parameter it only opens this file not the complete project.

Is there a way to do what I am trying to do??

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Assuming your project's root CMakeLists.txt is located in C:\project\CMakeLists.txt you can call

devenv "C:\project"

without the CMakeLists.txt.

Note that currently there seems to be a bug in Visual Studio 16.7 that when opening a directory, all the views (eg solution explorer) are hidden by default. ( https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/1140297/visual-studio-is-forgetting-docked-viewwindow-layo.html )