[CMake] CMake and Visual Studio

[John Drescher]

> Thanks. I tend to either use vim or PSPad. I think editing CMakeLists.txt to
> add the new file, then `touch'ing the new file, should work?
Yes.

> I suppose cmake
> would have to be called again though.
>
If you click compile in visual studio. It will execute CMake
automatically if you changed any CMakeLists.txt file in the source
tree.

>
>>>> Also, is there any better way to actually replicate the folder
>>>> structure of the source code?
>>>>
>>> I am confused at that question.
>>> I have my code organized as
>>>
>>>
>> Project
>>    Src
>>    Include
>>    Libraries
>>         Internal
>>            someLibrary
>>                Src Include someOtherLibrary Src Include
>>
>>
>
> Well, I mean that it'll be quite a large project, so I will probably be
> organizing my source files into subfolders of src/. Unfortunately, it seems
> that Visual Studio won't recognize these subdirectories, but will just list
> all the files under "Source Files," and the same for header files.
>
There is a way to do this in CMake. I something to do with source
groups I have never used this though. I tend to organize all of my
large projects in several static libraries. And each of these has its
own src and include folders.
>>>
>>>>  I might just move to using vim because using Visual Studio is quite a
>>>> pain at this point, but in case someone else wants to build it or
>>>> contribute to the code, developing in Visual Studio, I'd like to make
>>>> it as easy as possible.
>>>>
>>>> I'm just starting out with this, but here's my current CMakeLists.txt
>>>> in the src directory.
>>>>
>>
>> Here is an example of mine..
>>
>
> Thanks, that helps a lot. I'm still learning about the best way to do
> certain things.
>
> I notice you have a libraries directory. How do you manage external
> libraries, especially if they aren't by default built with cmake?
>
I have not used any that do not already have a CMake finder so I am
not sure. I am still new at this. I have used CMake on 1 application
with ~12 internal libraries and a library only project in the past
year. This totaled around 55K lines of C++ code and 200 to 400 source
and header files.

> I'll be
> using an audio library and I'm not really sure how to include it.
>
> Also, I need to include boost, but most examples I've seen just search for
> boost on the system, so it is somewhat of a prerequisite.
>
> Thanks a lot for the response.
>
Your welcome..

John