[CMake] Visual Studio 2012 Beta: unable to compile individual files

[Ben Medina]

Yes, manually editing the hand-generated (well, project wizard
generated) file to use full paths triggers the problem. I guess I'll
report this to Microsoft, but it would be nice to confirm that others
are having the same problem.

- Ben

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 07:21 PM, Ben Medina wrote:
>> Has anyone tried the Visual Studio 2012 beta with CMake's "Visual
>> Studio 11" generator? I've tried with several projects, and even a
>> simple project that just contains main.cpp has the same problem:
>> compiling a single file does not work. Instead, I get this in the
>> output window:
>>
>> 1>Error: Cannot build selected files.
>>
>> This seems to be because the paths to source files are absolute in the
>> CMake-generated project file. If I use Visual Studio's project wizard
>> to create a new project, the paths are relative, since the vcxproj and
>> the source files are in the same directory. Changing the
>> project-wizard-generated file to use absolute paths results in the
>> same error.
>>
>> Any thoughts? Should I file a bug with Microsoft?
>
> If you manually edit the hand-generated project file saved by the IDE
> to change the sources to full paths, does that by itself cause the
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brad