[CMake] Visual Studio Generator: Unable to show property page for custom build tool

[James Bigler]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Michael Guerrero <insominx at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi, I’ve been experimenting with using Visual Studio’s “Custom Build Tool”
> per cpp file to perform some specialized operations.  However, the property
> page is not visible (not editable) when I generate a project with cmake.
>  To see what this looks like, see here:
> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msbuild/thread/496e301c-de2e-49bf-bbfa-ea8de335a0a5.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1) Generate a c++ project for visual studio (I’m using vs2010)
> 2) Right click a .cpp file in the solution and go to properties
> 3) Under Configuration Properties/General, change “Item Type” to “Custom
> Build Tool”
> 4) Click Apply
> 5) Select Configuration Properties / Custom Build Tool / General
>
> I’ve attempted to hand edit the solution and project files to determine
> what is causing this but nothing I removed seemed to have any affect.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this or where to look?
>
> Michael Guerrero
> Programmer at Delta3D
> Research Associate, MOVES Institute, Naval Postgraduate School
> Monterey, CA
>
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I've seen this with other property pages.  One of my coworkers explained
that it might be the XML CMake generates for the proj files is a little bit
"off" and VS fails to understand it properly.

James
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