[CMake] Visual Studio 10 property pages for single source file gone with CMake 2.8.5 and 2.8.6

Mateusz Łoskot mateusz at loskot.net
Fri Nov 11 10:10:40 EST 2011


On 11 November 2011 13:54, Niels Dekker - address until 2014
<niels_dekker_address_until_2014 at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> Update: I think users can work around this issue (#12570, empty
>>> property pages in VS10), by having the directory where to build the
>>> binaries on a separate drive (different from the drive that has the
>>> source files).
>
> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>
>> Separate drive may not be an option for some/many.
>> I, for instance, don't use partitions, but I use
>> CMakeas as main builder for my projects.
>
> In order to work around http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12570 I
> think it should be sufficient to have a different drive *letter* when
> specifying where to build the binaries than the drive letter(s) of the path
> names of the source files. So I guess one might work around this issue by
> mapping a new drive letter to the build/bin directory, even while this
> directory might be located at the same physical drive as the source files.
> Right?

I guess it's feasible.
I'll try this approach when I have a free moment. Thanks.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net


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