[CMake] Automatic visual studio project file inclusion

[Bill Hoffman]

You should be using the SUBDIRS or ADD_SUBDIRECTORY command.
The external msproject is for including a project NOT configured
by cmake into a cmake project tree.



At 08:13 AM 4/26/2006, Manuel Klimek wrote:
>Hi,
>
>A little feature request. I don't know if this is
>allready possible, therefor I post to the list first.
>Should I file a feature request?
>
>It would be nice to have an option to
>automatically include all vs project files
>to a solution if a target depends on any
>target in the project file, adding all
>dependencies automatically.
>Example:
>lib/a/
>ADD_LIBRARY(a ...)
>
>lib/b/
>ADD_LIBRARY(b ...)
>TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(b a)
>
>lib/c/
>ADD_LIBRARY(c ...)
>TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(c b)
>
>projects/x
>ADD_EXECUTABLE(x)
>TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(x c)
>now this option would generate:
>INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT( a ${a_BINARY_DIR}/a.vcproj )
>INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT( b ${b_BINARY_DIR}/b.vcproj a)
>INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT( c ${c_BINARY_DIR}/c.vcproj b)
>ADD_DEPENDENCIES(x c)
>
>the above is a lot to maintain if you have many
>projects building on the same base libraries and some
>library dependencies change...
>
>Greetings,
>Manuel
>
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