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

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:30 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?
>

A little off topic but even if this worked won't all settings you make
get overwritten when CMake regenerates your project or are these
stored in .user files or something else that CMake does not touch?

John