MSVC: Fix run and debug project settings (#771)

* MSVC: Fix run and debug project settings

* MSVC: Fix CMake infinite loop

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -50,15 +50,16 @@ if(NOT DEFINED CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH)
 	endif()
 endif()
 
+add_subdirectory(xs)
+
 if (MSVC)
 	# By default the startup project in MSVC is the 'ALL_BUILD' cmake-created project,
 	# but we want 'slic3r' as the startup one because debugging run command is associated with it.
 	# (Unfortunatelly it cannot be associated with ALL_BUILD using CMake.)
-	set_property(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} PROPERTY VS_STARTUP_PROJECT slic3r)
+	# Note: For some reason this needs to be set in the top-level CMakeLists.txt
+	set_property(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} PROPERTY VS_STARTUP_PROJECT XS)
 endif ()
 
-add_subdirectory(xs)
-
 enable_testing ()
 get_filename_component(PERL_BIN_PATH "${PERL_EXECUTABLE}" DIRECTORY)
 add_test (NAME xs COMMAND "${PERL_EXECUTABLE}" ${PERL_BIN_PATH}/prove -I ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/local-lib/lib/perl5 WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/xs)

cmake/msvc/slic3r.wperl64d.props

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<Project ToolsVersion="12.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <LocalDebuggerCommand>C:\wperl64d\bin\perl.exe</LocalDebuggerCommand>
-    <LocalDebuggerCommandArguments>slic3r.pl</LocalDebuggerCommandArguments>
-    <DebuggerFlavor>WindowsLocalDebugger</DebuggerFlavor>
-    <LocalDebuggerWorkingDirectory>..\..</LocalDebuggerWorkingDirectory>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-</Project>

cmake/msvc/xs.wperl64d.props

@@ -8,4 +8,11 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemDefinitionGroup />
   <ItemGroup />
+
+  <PropertyGroup>
+    <LocalDebuggerCommand>C:\wperl64d\bin\perl.exe</LocalDebuggerCommand>
+    <LocalDebuggerCommandArguments>slic3r.pl</LocalDebuggerCommandArguments>
+    <DebuggerFlavor>WindowsLocalDebugger</DebuggerFlavor>
+    <LocalDebuggerWorkingDirectory>..\..</LocalDebuggerWorkingDirectory>
+  </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>

doc/How to build - Windows.md

@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ and use these commands to build the Slic3r from the command line:
     cd build
     cmake .. -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
     nmake
-    ctest --verbose    # TODO: ???
     cd ..
     perl slic3r.pl
 
@@ -60,27 +59,34 @@ You may also build Slic3r PE with other build tools:
 
 ### Building with Visual Studio
 
-To build, lanuch and/or debug Slic3r PE with Visual Studio (64 bits), replace the `cmake` command with:
+To build and debug Slic3r PE with Visual Studio (64 bits), replace the `cmake` command with:
 
-    cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=Release;RelWithDebInfo || exit /b
+    cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=RelWithDebInfo
 
 For the 32-bit variant, use:
 
-    cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 12" -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=Release;RelWithDebInfo || exit /b
+    cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 12" -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=RelWithDebInfo
 
-After `cmake` has finished, go to the `Slic3r\build` directory and open the `Slic3r.sln` solution file.
-This should open Visual Studio and load all the Slic3r solution containing all the projects.
+After `cmake` has finished, go to the build directory and open the `Slic3r.sln` solution file.
+This should open Visual Studio and load the Slic3r solution containing all the projects.
 Make sure you use Visual Studio 2013 to open the solution.
 
-You can then use the usual Visual Studio controls to build Slic3r.
-If you want to run or debug Slic3r from within Visual Studio, make sure the `slic3r` project is activated.
-There are multiple projects in the Slic3r solution, but only the `slic3r` project is configured with the right
-commands to run Slic3r.
+You can then use the usual Visual Studio controls to build Slic3r (Hit `F5` to build and run with debugger).
+If you want to run or debug Slic3r from within Visual Studio, make sure the `XS` project is activated.
+It should be set as the Startup project by CMake by default, but you might want to check anyway.
+There are multiple projects in the Slic3r solution, but only the `XS` project is configured with the right
+commands to run and debug Slic3r.
 
+The above cmake commands generate Visual Studio project files with the `RelWithDebInfo` configuration only.
+If you also want to use the `Release` configuration, you can generate Visual Studio projects with:
+
+    -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=Release;RelWithDebInfo
+
+(The `Debug` configuration is not supported as of now.)
 
 ### Building with ninja
 
-To use [Ninja](TODO), replace the `cmake` and `nmake` commands with:
+To use [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/), replace the `cmake` and `nmake` commands with:
 
     cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
     ninja

xs/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -626,14 +626,9 @@ elseif (NOT MSVC)
 endif ()
 
 if (MSVC)
-    # Here we associate some additional properties with the MSVC projects to enable compilation and debugging out of the box.
-    # It seems a props file needs to be copied to the same dir as the proj file, otherwise MSVC doesn't load it up.
-    # For copying, the configure_file() function seems to work much better than the file() function.
-    configure_file("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/msvc/xs.wperl64d.props" ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} COPYONLY)
-    set_target_properties(XS PROPERTIES VS_USER_PROPS "xs.wperl64d.props")
-    configure_file("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/msvc/slic3r.wperl64d.props" ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} COPYONLY)
-    set_target_properties(slic3r PROPERTIES VS_USER_PROPS "slic3r.wperl64d.props")
-endif ()
+    # Here we associate some additional properties with the MSVC project to enable compilation and debugging out of the box.
+    set_target_properties(XS PROPERTIES VS_USER_PROPS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/msvc/xs.wperl64d.props")
+endif()
 
 
 # Installation