[CMake] Problem with including resource files for visual studio .NET when using 2.4.2

[William A. Hoffman]

At 12:26 PM 7/13/2006, Neumann, Jan (SCR US) wrote:
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>Hi,
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>I have used CMake 2.2.3 for over a year with my projects and never had a problem. Today I upgraded to 2.4.2, and the project files were generated fine for Visual Studio 2003 .NET, but during compilation I am getting very strange compilation errors where the compiler complains that the binary .ico files in /res directory have unknown characters. 
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>e.g.:
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>Compiling...
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>VehicleDetectAppDoc.ico
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>\home\SRC\PedestrianDetection\PedDetectVDO\res\VehicleDetectAppDoc.ico(0) : warning C4821: Unable to determine Unicode encoding type, please save the file with signature (BOM)
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>\home\SRC\PedestrianDetection\PedDetectVDO\res\VehicleDetectAppDoc.ico(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0x1'
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>\home\SRC\PedestrianDetection\PedDetectVDO\res\VehicleDetectAppDoc.ico(1) : error C2018: unknown character '0x2'
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>I assume this come from the fact that I simply  include all the resource files (both binary and text files)
> as input to the ADD_EXECUTABLE(...) command. This always worked fine in 2.2.3, but it seems that there are some settings that 2.4.2 generates that make the compiler assume that all the resource files are text files. I included a copy of my CMake file below
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>Could someone tell me what is the correct way to include the resource files in my project via cmake, so that I am able to use 2.4.2. in the future?
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>Thanks a lot,

I think this is a bug, and I think it might be fixed.  Is there a way for you to try CVS CMake?

-Bill