Opening Existing CMake Caches in Visual Studio is not supported a

Mohammad Mohsin Siddiqui 175

We have a requirement in our project that we want to generate cmake cache outside Visual Studio and want to use same generated cache in Visual Studio for build. The idea is that when we open a generated cache, VS will not try to generate cache rather it will use al ready generated cache. We found one article exactly for this same purpose.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/open-existing-cmake-caches-in-visual-studio/

But it seems this is not working. When I tried to open I got below error.

am I doing anything wrong?

Regards,

Mohsin Siddiqui

Anna Xiu-MSFT 27,636 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-07-02T13:11:05.5033333+00:00

Hello, how did you open the existing CMake cache? Please share us the error you got.
Mohammad Mohsin Siddiqui 175 Reputation points

2024-07-03T06:07:21.8133333+00:00

@Anna Xiu-MSFT I am opening CMakeCache.txt via File->Open->CMake

When I am opening existing generate Cmake cache it gives me below error

And when I tried to open CMakeLists.txt directly via File->Open->CMake (as suggested above in error windows) after opening file, its trying to generate cache for selected configuration.

Our requirement is how can we avoid generating cmake cache via cmake and use it from already generated cache.

Hope this explains my problem.
Anna Xiu-MSFT 27,636 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-07-04T13:18:38.9966667+00:00

Hello, which version of Visual Studio are you using?
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Opening Existing CMake Caches in Visual Studio is not supported a