[CMake] Generating MSVS solution files that can be passed around

Cristian Adam cristian.adam at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 12:52:20 EDT 2018


On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Zaak Beekman <zbeekman at gmail.com> wrote:

> The situation is that we have a client who works with other contractors
> who use almost exclusively windows and MSVS. This client wants to
> distribute MSVS solution files with the source code so that other
> contractors don’t have to install cmake. (There are some restrictions/red
> tape for installing additional software on the contractor machines…)
>

Why not distribute CMake as source code? Compile it so that they don't have
to "install" it.

On the other hand Visual Studio 2017 comes with their own version of CMake!
Just make sure your contractors use VS2017 :D

Cheers,
Cristian.
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