How to set Build order in Visual Studio

brianreinhold — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:05:09 GMT

I have a case where a module GSUBS contains functions that depend upon the module PBOX.

If I clean and rebuild, the build fails
- If I build again, the build succeeds
If I clean and compile PBOX and build, the build succeeds

It's clear what the problem is in this very simple case. I need to build PBOX before I build GSUBS. However, unlike the C/C++ compilers, I am unable to specify the build order (or at least I could not find a way to do that). The only dependency option I had was to build another project first if this project depended upon that project (which is does not).

I see some VERY old posts on the issue (2011-2014) but did not find any solutions.

PBOX contains win32 graphics calls and GSUBS is 'pure fortran' code that calls the graphics methods in PBOX. At the moment GSUBS contains two simple functions. All worked fine until I added the module GSUBS. GSUBS looks like

module GSUBSModule use PboxModule implicit none private public :: BOX, MCURSOR contains (At the moment only two functions) !*************************************************Make BOX of lines: function BOX(IX1, IY11, IX2, IY22, color, hWnd) result(message) use ifwinty INTEGER(SINT), intent(in) :: IX1, IY11, IX2, IY22 INTEGER*4, intent(in) :: color INTEGER(HANDLE), INTENT(IN) :: hWnd INTEGER(SINT) IY1, IY2 character(128) :: message IY1 = gWndHght - IY11 IY2 = gWndHght - IY22 message = PLINE(IX1, IY1, IX1, IY2, color, hwnd) message = PLINE(IX1, IY2, IX2, IY2, color, hwnd) message = PLINE(IX2, IY2, IX2, IY1, color, hwnd) message = PLINE(IX2, IY1, IX1, IY1, color, hwnd) END function BOX !*********************************************Mouse cursor drawing routine: function MCURSOR(IX, IYY, color, hWnd) result(message) use ifwinty INTEGER(SINT), intent(in) :: IX, IYY INTEGER*4, intent(in) :: color INTEGER(HANDLE), INTENT(IN) :: hWnd INTEGER(SINT) :: I, IX2, IY2, IY character(128) :: message IY = gWndHght - IYY IX2 = IX - 8 IY2 = IY - 8 DO I = 1, 17 message = PLOT(INT(IX2 + I, SINT), IY, color, hwnd) message = PLOT(IX2 + I, IY + 1, color, hwnd) message = PLOT(IX + 1, IY2 + I, color, hwnd) message = PLOT(IX, IY2 + I, color, hwnd) END DO END function MCURSOR

Re: How to set Build order in Visual Studio

andrew_4619 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:36:08 GMT

Vs is good at getting dependencies correct. The symptoms sound like circular depandancies. A depends on B and B depends On A so the correct order is Impossible. You need to change the structure or look at submodules. Does pboxmodule call mcursor or box if so that is circular.

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