Comment line for custom target has added leading 1>

Usage
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1

For example:

    set(name example)
    add_executable(${name} ${...})

    set(customName customTarget)
    add_custom_target(${customName} COMMENT "#${customName}"
        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo $<TARGET_FILE:${name}>
    )

1>#customTarget
<path to build folder>/Debug/example.exe

Is this 1> a bug, intended to redirect it to the standard error?

2

Can you share more about your build environment? This looks like the way MSBuild prefixes project build output with the ordinal number of the project being built.

3

As of right now the generator is not explicitly specified, so it defaults:
CMAKE_GENERATOR:INTERNAL=Visual Studio 18 2026

Is it documented that Visual Studio does that? I am not using a full Visual Studio install, only build tools.

4

This is not the first project I have used a custom target COMMENT, in for printing a marker which indicates the start of the custom target’s output. I can’t remember if I have ever ran in to this issue in the past. If I have, I very much forgot.