Having Project Dependencies visible on Visual Studio?

[soufianekhiat]

Do we have a way to have Project Dependencies visible on Visual Studio, I tried AddPublicDependency and AddPrivateDependency:

[jspelletier]

Hello Soufiane,

You must be doing something wrong in your configuration because it should be working. Here is a screenshot of a msbuild based project I have that is managed by Sharpmake.

Are you passing special parameters to your AddPublicDependencies ? Could you paste some code here showing the way you are adding your dependencies? These are C++ projects, right ?

Thanks
JS

[sylvainfortin]

It might not be your case, but I encountered a similar case a few years ago and was also surprise at first. If your project output a static library, it does not need the results of its static dependencies to compile itself. I believe Sharpmake omit the project dependency in this case to improve compilation time. It enable the MSBuild engine to compile your projects in parallel.

[soufianekhiat]

Hi JS,

For info, I'm using "sharpmake 0.20.0".
I have nothing special:

conf.AddPublicDependency< KernelProject    >( target );
conf.AddPublicDependency< CoreProject      >( target );
conf.AddPublicDependency< MathProject      >( target );
conf.AddPublicDependency< MantleProject    >( target );
conf.AddPublicDependency< ScalerProject    >( target );
conf.AddPublicDependency< ImUIProject      >( target );

conf.AddPublicDependency< RegistersProject >( target );

All projects are C++,
Core, Kernel, Math, Scalar, Mantle, ImUI, Brain, Registers, Package.SDK are static lib
Package.Internal.Core is a DLL
and
eMVClass and eMVEditor are *.exe

[jspelletier]

Hello,

In the screenshot I posted, sandbox is an exe and the 3 checked projects are static libs.

I suggest you upgrade to latest version, maybe we fixed a bug a while ago.

[soufianekhiat]

I updated to "0.21.0"
Still amazed about how fast is it compare to CMake ( :

  Results:
    projects  (  720 configurations)   131 generated,     0 up-to-date
    solutions (   10 configurations)     0 generated,     5 up-to-date
  time: 4.43 sec.

My dependencies are
Kernel <- {Core, Math, eMVClass}
Core <- {Scaler, Mantle, Brain, eMVClass}
Math <- Brain
Scaler <- Mantle
Mantle <- Brain
Brain <- {Registers, ImUI}
Registers <- PackageSDK
PackageSDK <- {PackageInternalCore, eMVEditor}
PackageInternalCore <- eMVEditor

And the dependencies on the build order became:

Dependencies for instance for Core:

And for eMVEditor:

Maybe I missed something.