BUG: Fix issue #7088 - do not emit error messages when attempts to run Visual Studio macros fail. You can still get the error output as messages if you want using --debug-output from the cmake command line.

Source/cmCallVisualStudioMacro.cxx

@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
 #endif
 
 
+// Just for this file:
+//
+static bool LogErrorsAsMessages;
+
+
 #if defined(HAVE_COMDEF_H)
 
 
@@ -31,17 +36,20 @@
 
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-///! Use ReportHRESULT to make a cmSystemTools::Error after calling
+///! Use ReportHRESULT to make a cmSystemTools::Message after calling
 ///! a COM method that may have failed.
 #define ReportHRESULT(hr, context) \
   if (FAILED(hr)) \
     { \
-    std::ostringstream oss; \
-    oss.flags(std::ios::hex); \
-    oss << context << " failed HRESULT, hr = 0x" << hr << std::endl; \
-    oss.flags(std::ios::dec); \
-    oss << __FILE__ << "(" << __LINE__ << ")"; \
-    cmSystemTools::Error(oss.str().c_str()); \
+    if (LogErrorsAsMessages) \
+      { \
+      std::ostringstream oss; \
+      oss.flags(std::ios::hex); \
+      oss << context << " failed HRESULT, hr = 0x" << hr << std::endl; \
+      oss.flags(std::ios::dec); \
+      oss << __FILE__ << "(" << __LINE__ << ")"; \
+      cmSystemTools::Message(oss.str().c_str()); \
+      } \
     }
 
 
@@ -404,6 +412,8 @@ int cmCallVisualStudioMacro::GetNumberOfRunningVisualStudioInstances(
 {
   int count = 0;
 
+  LogErrorsAsMessages = false;
+
 #if defined(HAVE_COMDEF_H)
   HRESULT hr = CoInitialize(0);
   ReportHRESULT(hr, "CoInitialize");
@@ -438,10 +448,13 @@ int cmCallVisualStudioMacro::GetNumberOfRunningVisualStudioInstances(
 int cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro(
   const std::string& slnFile,
   const std::string& macro,
-  const std::string& args)
+  const std::string& args,
+  const bool logErrorsAsMessages)
 {
   int err = 1; // no comdef.h
 
+  LogErrorsAsMessages = logErrorsAsMessages;
+
 #if defined(HAVE_COMDEF_H)
   err = 2; // error initializing
 
@@ -489,16 +502,19 @@ int cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro(
   (void)slnFile;
   (void)macro;
   (void)args;
-  cmSystemTools::Error("cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro is not "
-    "supported on this platform");
+  if (LogErrorsAsMessages)
+    {
+    cmSystemTools::Message("cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro is not "
+      "supported on this platform");
+    }
 #endif
 
-  if (err)
+  if (err && LogErrorsAsMessages)
     {
     std::ostringstream oss;
     oss << "cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro failed, err = " << err;
-    cmSystemTools::Error(oss.str().c_str());
+    cmSystemTools::Message(oss.str().c_str());
     }
 
-  return err;
+  return 0;
 }

Source/cmCallVisualStudioMacro.h

@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ public:
   ///! macro in each Visual Studio instance.
   static int CallMacro(const std::string& slnFile,
                        const std::string& macro,
-                       const std::string& args);
+                       const std::string& args,
+                       const bool logErrorsAsMessages);
 
   ///! Count the number of running instances of Visual Studio with the
   ///! given solution file open. Pass "ALL" for slnFile to count all

Source/cmGlobalVisualStudioGenerator.cxx

@@ -178,14 +178,16 @@ cmGlobalVisualStudioGenerator
             projects += ";";
             projects += *it;
             }
-          cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro
-            (topLevelSlnName, CMAKE_VSMACROS_RELOAD_MACRONAME, projects);
+          cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro(topLevelSlnName,
+            CMAKE_VSMACROS_RELOAD_MACRONAME, projects,
+            this->GetCMakeInstance()->GetDebugOutput());
           }
         }
       else if(m == MacroStop)
         {
         cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro(topLevelSlnName,
-          CMAKE_VSMACROS_STOP_MACRONAME, "");
+          CMAKE_VSMACROS_STOP_MACRONAME, "",
+          this->GetCMakeInstance()->GetDebugOutput());
         }
       }
     }

Source/cmake.cxx

@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ int cmake::ExecuteCMakeCommand(std::vector<std::string>& args)
         << " s. (clock)"
         << "\n";
       return 0;
-    }
+      }
 
     // Command to calculate the md5sum of a file
     else if (args[1] == "md5sum" && args.size() >= 3)
@@ -1422,7 +1422,8 @@ int cmake::ExecuteCMakeCommand(std::vector<std::string>& args)
           }
         }
 
-      return cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro(args[2], args[3], macroArgs);
+      return cmCallVisualStudioMacro::CallMacro(args[2], args[3],
+        macroArgs, true);
       }
 #endif