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

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Christian Ehrlicher
<Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de> wrote:
>  You've the dependency on VisualStudio (and maybe other external libs) but are afraid of the cmake dependency?

Yes, as cmake appears to be optional while the others are required.
That's a good point though.

>  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...
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>  A single CMakeLists.txt would make all the above superflous.
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>  Nobody forces you to use CMake - just write and maintain your .vcproj by your own ;)

Yeah, right. :p