Else the if below would always be false, which ruled out SSE_FLAGS, AVX_FLAGS and settings about OpenMP.

Author: larshg

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ endif()
 if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_MSVC)
   add_definitions("-DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -DNOMINMAX -DPCL_ONLY_CORE_POINT_TYPES ${SSE_DEFINITIONS}")
 
-  string(APPEND CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS " /bigobj")
   if("${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}" STREQUAL "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEFAULT}")
     string(APPEND CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS " /fp:precise ${SSE_FLAGS} ${AVX_FLAGS}")
 
@@ -203,6 +202,7 @@ if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_MSVC)
       endif()
     endif()
   endif()
+  string(APPEND CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS " /bigobj")
 
   if(CMAKE_GENERATOR STREQUAL "Ninja")
     string(APPEND CMAKE_C_FLAGS " /FS")