[CMake] how to map configurations from include_external_msproject() ?

[Hendrik Sattler]

Hi,

Am 9. Februar 2016 13:36:03 MEZ, schrieb Gerhard Pobinger <gerhard.pobinger at gmx.at>:
>I'm trying to include legacy Visual Studio projects into a cmake
>generated
>solution like this:
>
>project(Crypto)
>
>include_external_msproject(${PROJECT_NAME}_vcproj
>   "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}_vs90.vcproj"
>)
>
># add_dependencies(${PROJECT_NAME}_vcproj
># )
>
>add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE)
>
>target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE
>   debug ${LIB_PATH_DEBUG}/${PROJECT_NAME}.lib 
>   optimized ${LIB_PATH_RELEASE}/${PROJECT_NAME}.lib
>)
>
>add_dependencies(${PROJECT_NAME}
>   ${PROJECT_NAME}_vcproj
>)
>
>This works only as long as the vcproj-files contain a configuration
>named
>'release' and 'debug', but when they don't it seems there is no way to
>map
>the existing configuration names (as also requested in
>https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2010-April/036388.html). I tried the
>proposed way with imported targets, but I didn't succeed.
>
>How can I map a configuration of an external ms-project (e.g.
>'release_shared') into a configuration (e.g. 'release') of the
>cmake-generated solution? The problem is that simply adding a
>configuration
>named 'release' works, of course, but then I'd have to change the
>external
>vcproj...

...and additionally this might be impossible/very hard for e.g. qmake autogenerated vcprojx files.

HS