[CMake] How to make Visual Studio .vcproj with relative paths

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Mon Mar 24 19:58:04 EDT 2008


On Monday 24 March 2008, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a follow up to http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=6642
> I'm developing on Windows using Visual Studio 8 and in my project I
> use libraries like libogg, libvorbis, libpng, libbz2 and libz.
> Some of those libs ship VS files, some don't. Some include VS6 files,
> some VS7 or VS8.
> Most of the library developers probably don't have VS or even Windows.
> Now I've been wondering, would it be possible to make the VS project
> (and solution) files using cmake, on Linux?

Not really.
Why do you actually want to ship VS project files ?
The preferred approach would be to ship the cmake files and if required also 
include cmake itself.

Alex


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