[CMake] How to create a custom solution with Visual Studio 2010 generator?

[Hendrik Sattler]

Hi,


Am 22. September 2015 08:49:57 MESZ, schrieb "Golebiewski, Jakub" <Jakub.Golebiewski at dnvgl.com>:
>I have about 620 targets (VS projects) so when I open Main Project.sln
>(with 620 projects) in VS it is impossible to work with.
>Currently cmake produces .sln for each Sub Project but includes
>dependencies from other projects and that's something I don’t want
>Since the amount of projects in each .sln increases the further I go
>and most of them (later in the dependency chain) are not possible to
>work
>with either. I'm trying to divide it into .slns that developers could
>work with in VS.

That is exactly what imported targets are for. However, they refer to already built projects. I'd also suggest a two-step approach: first configure and build the thing with all projects in the solution. The libraries need to create cmake build tree export config files. After that step, define a cmake variable to switch to using the previously created export config files only. These create the imported targets and don't show up in the IDE.

HS