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

Zaak Beekman zbeekman at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 12:55:03 EDT 2018


Ha, yeah that’s an option. The problem is that they’re not “my”
contractors. They are the client’s contractors. We’ll see.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:52 PM Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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