[CMake] environment variables and visual studio

[Jesper Eskilson]

Sylvain Benner wrote:
> 
> 
>> Is there any way for CMake to set environment variables which can be
>> picked up in Visual Studio's pre/post-build steps?
>>
>> I'm working on a system where I've got a couple of studio project
>> included via the INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT(), and I would like to be
>> able to refer to things like CMAKE_BINARY_DIR, so that the external
>> msprojects can put their output relative to the CMake build dir.
>>   
> You can still generate the projects you are including with the
> INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT. It make sense since they are part of your
> CMake framework (you want to rely on CMake variables).

No, I can't. The reason I don't generate them is that they have to be
portable since they are shipped to customers as a part of an SDK, and as
I understand it the project files CMake generates are not
portable/movable (due to absolute paths, etc).

> At start, it can be a lot of work to write the CMakeLists.txt for each
> projects but you need to do it only once.

I actually had CMakeLists.txt for the projects, but had to discard them
for the reason above.

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/Jesper