[CMake] How to preserve directory structure within Visual Studio

[J Decker]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> No, the FOLDER property is only a mechanism for grouping and
> organizing *targets*, it is not a source file property...
>

uhh...  FOLDER works on projects in a solution, but it also works on
source files within a project.

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(bag.image PROPERTIES
                  FOLDER "Image Library"
....)

SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES( ${OPTION_SOURCE} PROPERTIES
		FOLDER "Source Files\\Option Library" )


>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:19 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY USE_FOLDERS On)
>>
>> SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES( ${YOUR_SOURCES} PROPERTIES
>>                FOLDER "project folder name here" )
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Stephen Torri <stephen.torri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> CMake version: 2.8
>>> IDE: Visual Studio 2008
>>>
>>> For the source and header files I would like to preserve the directory
>>> structure within the Visual Studio "Header Files" and "Source Files"
>>> folders. Without it should there occur two files with the same name
>>> but in different directories only one is shown. For example:
>>>
>>> SET ( HEADERS
>>>   base_units/time.hpp
>>>   si/time.hpp )
>>>
>>> add_custom_target ( UnitHeaders SOURCES ${HEADERS} )
>>>
>>> If UnitHeaders is included within the parent CMakeLists.txt file a
>>> Project called UnitHeaders is included within the Visual Studio
>>> Solution. What you will see undert the "Header Files" for UnitHeaders
>>> is only one header file. I would like to see the following within
>>> Visual Studio under Header Files:
>>>
>>> UnitHeaders
>>>   |
>>>   |-- Header Files -> base -> time.hpp
>>>                          -> si -> time.hpp
>>>
>>> A search on Google has shown two similar questions asked in the past
>>> but no answer was posted in reply to them.
>>>
>>> Stephen
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