Another disadvantage of cmake, when generating VS solution and project files, is that they are not standalone - just like when it generates makefiles [1]. It ma

Another disadvantage of cmake, when generating VS solution and project files, is that they are not standalone - just like when it generates makefiles [1]. It makes it nearly impossible to reason about your build dependencies from the VS IDE. [1] https://github.com/qznc/annoying-build-systems#cmake https://github.com/qznc/annoying-build-systems#cmake