<div dir="ltr">CMake only puts projects (libraries, executables, custom targets) inside of solution folders. There's currently no way to add an individual file in them directly.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>D</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Andrei Porumb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anporumb@microsoft.com" target="_blank">anporumb@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> I am very sorry to say that your suggestion achieves something different (similar, but different). SOURCE_GROUP creates a "project filter" (that's
an entity under a project). A "project filter" is not a "solution folder" (yeah, they look very similar). Picture included with a solution folder and a project filter.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> What I want is to place some random files under the solution folder. These files are not CMake targets.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Best Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Andrei Porumb<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">"a skhizein equals to 1 software rename/dev cycle"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Parag Chandra [mailto:<a href="mailto:parag@ionicsecurity.com" target="_blank">parag@ionicsecurity.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 23, 2015 7:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrei Porumb <<a href="mailto:anporumb@microsoft.com" target="_blank">anporumb@microsoft.com</a>>; J Decker <<a href="mailto:d3ck0r@gmail.com" target="_blank">d3ck0r@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org" target="_blank">cmake@cmake.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CMake] Visual Studio solution folders with 1 item in them<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Couldn’t you use the source_group() command to do this? That is how I arbitrarily group my source files into folders within Visual Studio.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 11:27 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>J Decker <<a href="mailto:d3ck0r@gmail.com" target="_blank">d3ck0r@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org" target="_blank">cmake@cmake.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org" target="_blank">cmake@cmake.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [CMake] Visual Studio solution folders with 1 item in them<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">What you are suggesting will add some previously build targets to the solution inside a solution folder. What I want is to simply have a file inside a solution
folder.</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Best Regards,</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">"a skhizein equals to 1 software rename/dev cycle"</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrei Porumb <<a href="mailto:anporumb@microsoft.com" target="_blank">anporumb@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org" target="_blank">cmake@cmake.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CMake] Visual Studio solution folders with 1 item in them</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Andrei Porumb <<a href="mailto:anporumb@microsoft.com" target="_blank">anporumb@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> Thank you for everything so far!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> I am migrating some cross platform projects to CMake. Naturally our devs (myself included) like things to look "in a certain way". And
if "certain way" can be produced by CMake then adoption is smoothened.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> That being said, this is the issue at hand. How can I instruct CMake to produce some harmless Visual Studio solution folders having some
non-target items in them? (I know how to insert targets under Visual Studio solution folders, but I need simple files). Like in the picture below. Notice that "Specs" solution folder contains 3 items, a text file, a bitmap and a sequenceDiagram, none of which
are CMake targets.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> Any help is greatly appreciated.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Best Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Andrei Porumb<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">"a skhizein equals to 1 software rename/dev cycle"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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