[Qgis-developer] Cmake issues when building with VS2008

[Jeremy Palmer]

Hi,

I've been setting up my QGIS build environment on WinXP using VS2008 Team Edition. I'm getting a couple of issues relating to the generation of VS projects for the python libraries which rely on SIP.

After I run the cmake setup in the qgis/build directory (cmake setup ..), the following dummy files get created:

qgis\build\python\core\sipcorepart0.cpp
qgis\build\python\core\sipcorepart1.cpp
qgis\build\python\core\sipcorepart2.cpp
qgis\build\python\core\sipcorepart3.cpp

qgis\build\python\analysis\sipanalysispart0.cpp
qgis\build\python\analysis\sipanalysispart1.cpp
qgis\build\python\analysis\sipanalysispart2.cpp
qgis\build\python\analysis\sipanalysispart3.cpp

qgis\build\python\gui\sipguipart0.cpp
qgis\build\python\gui\sipguipart1.cpp
qgis\build\python\gui\sipguipart2.cpp
qgis\build\python\gui\sipguipart3.cpp

Because these files get a file date newer that the source file dependencies listed in the project rule (sipxxx.cpp.rule), the proper files never get created using SIP the command. This problem can be overcome either by deleting the dummy files or rebuilding the project. But the cmake rules should probably be updated so the project works correctly by just using 'build'.

Another issue I'm getting is in the python_module_qgis_analysis project. The project includes a reference to 4 cpp files (sipanalysispart[0-3].cpp), but the sip command only generates 3 files (sipanalysispart[0-2].cpp). Because 1 file is missing at the end of SIP processing, Visual Studio throws a project build error. The SIP command generated by cmake for generating the cpp files is:

C:\OSGeo4W\apps\Python25\sip -x VendorID -t WS_WIN -x PyQt_OpenSSL -x PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug -t Qt_4_5_0 -x Py_v3 -g -j 4 -c C:/Dev/qgis/build/python/analysis -I C:/OSGeo4W/apps/Python25/sip/PyQt4 -I C:/Dev/qgis/python C:/Dev/qgis/python/analysis/analysis.sip

In my environment I'm using:

Visual Studio Team System 2008 SP1 (v9.0.30729)
cmake 2.8.0
Latest OGeo4W dependencies
WinXP SP2

Thanks
Jeremy
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