[CMake] How to make Visual Studio .vcproj with relative paths

[Christian Ehrlicher]

> Von: "Olaf van der Spek"
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Alexander Neundorf
> <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> >  Not really.
> >  Why do you actually want to ship VS project files ?
> 
> To avoid a dependency on cmake. The library user probably doesn't have
> cmake installed and it would be nice if he could directly open the
> .sln file and build the library.
> 
You've the dependency on VisualStudio (and maybe other external libs) but are afraid of the cmake dependency?
Throw away the idea of shipping indivudal .vcproj files. Today I had to install three external libs and every one had a whole bunch of Makefiles (cygwin, gnu, osx, sun, ...) and .vcproj - Files (vs6, vs7, vs8 - I wonder if they don't support vs9 ;) ). This looks very professional and I won't think about the administration effort to keep all of them up-to-date. 
Oh, and because they don't support out-of-source builds they also shipped a clean.bat file to clean up all the files created by vs...

A single CMakeLists.txt would make all the above superflous.


Nobody forces you to use CMake - just write and maintain your .vcproj by your own ;)


Christian
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