[CMake] Using CMake 2.8.11 to generate Visual Studo C++ Makefile Project in addition to Win32 C++ Projects (.dll/.exe)

[Jason Babicka]

I am currently using CMake version 2.8.11 to generate a Visual Studio 2010 solution, containing over 50 c++ projects, on a Windows 7 (x64) development machine.  All of these projects currently either generate windows executable files (.exe's) or windows libraries (.dll's) from c++ code.  What I am looking to do is to add a new project that just calls some windows batch scripts to perform it's tasks.  After a number of the projects have been built, there are a number of archive files that we want to generate through various batch scripts.  I would like to try and find a way to add a project in Visual Studio that can be called to run these batch scripts once the other projects have been built.  Visual Studio 2010 seems to support a c++ makefile project type which can be used to call various commands, such as a batch script, to perform the build/rebuild/clean operations.  In looking through the CMake Documentation for 2.8.11 (found here: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.11/cmake.html) and also through the CMake Wiki Page (found here: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake), I wasn't readily able to discern whether it was possible to create CMakeLists.txt file that would generate a project like this for Visual Studio 2010.

So far, here are the things that I have tried in determining if this is even possible:

* I tried to search on it for Google.  I did not run across anyone else posting a question or solution similar to this (mostly as I am guessing that this is a not a common thing to try and do with CMake).
* Using the Visual Studio Project Template Generator, I created a test project that called this batch file.  On the wiki, I had seen that there were a couple of projects that were supposed to be able to allow you to convert a .vcxproj into a valid CMakeLists.txt file. Unfortunately, it seems like most of the links are no longer valid or they do not support converting .vcxproj files, just .vcproj files.

So, I was wondering if anyone on this mailing list has tried to do something like this before?  If you have, I was wondering if you might be able to provide a very simple CMakeLists.txt example for how you do this? Also, if you have any other suggestions for things to try, I would greatly appreciate those as well.

Thanks,
Jason



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