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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hello Parag,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Andrei Porumb<o:p></o:p></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"<o:p></o:p></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:parag@ionicsecurity.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 23, 2015 7:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrei Porumb <anporumb@microsoft.com>; J Decker <d3ck0r@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> cmake@cmake.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CMake] Visual Studio solution folders with 1 item in them<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Parag Chandra</span></strong><b><br>
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Mobile: +1.919.824.1410<br>
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Ionic Security Inc.<br>
1170 Peachtree St. NE STE 400, Atlanta, GA 30309 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Andrei Porumb <<a href="mailto:anporumb@microsoft.com">anporumb@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 11:27 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>J Decker <<a href="mailto:d3ck0r@gmail.com">d3ck0r@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org">cmake@cmake.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org">cmake@cmake.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [CMake] Visual Studio solution folders with 1 item in them<o:p></o:p></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"><o:p></o:p></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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Andrei Porumb</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> J Decker [<a href="mailto:d3ck0r@gmail.com">mailto:d3ck0r@gmail.com</a>]
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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">anporumb@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org">cmake@cmake.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CMake] Visual Studio solution folders with 1 item in them</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Hello CMake,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> Thank you for everything so far!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> Any help is greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Andrei Porumb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">"a skhizein equals to 1 software rename/dev cycle"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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