[CMake] How to add CMake includes and libraries to Visual Studio Solution?

[J Decker]

I just use
include_directories( ... )
LINK_DIRECTORIES( ...} )

which works fine for specifying additional directories for that
project and all sub projects included.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:24 AM,  <hellhound at binary-revolution.org> wrote:
> I use CMake to generate a Visual Studio 2010 project and solution file. Actually I could set different settings, like warning level, incremental building flag ect. from CMake. But I can't set additional includes and libraries, listed in the VC++ Directory configuration tab.
>
> For GCC projects anything is running fine and I could compile and link the project. For MSVC I've
> to add those directories manually to perform a compile and link. But this is stupid and boring...
>
> I tried to set the following CMake variables:
>
>   INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
>   LINK_DIRECTORIES
>   CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH
>
> but nothing happend. If i open the project, the additional include directory of the solution is always empty (only standard MSVE settings are given). I tired to set this variables after executable creation, but this has also no effect.
>
> I also tried to set the MSVC environment variables INCLUDE and PATH with SET(ENV${PATH} "c:\test\...\") but this also has no effect. The directories of the MSVC solution are empty.
>
> This is what i do directly in the header of the cmake file:
>
> CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.6)
> PROJECT(${MODULE_NAME})
> IF (MSVC)
>   # Activate C++ exception handling
>   IF (NOT CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS MATCHES "/EHsc")
>   SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /EHsc")
>   ENDIF ()
>
>   # Set Warning level always to 4
>   IF (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS MATCHES "/W[0-4]")
>     string(REGEX REPLACE "/W[0-4]" "/W4" CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
>   ELSE ()
>     set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /W4")
>   ENDIF ()
>
>   #read path of dependency modules
>   file(READ "msvc.deps" MSVC_PROPERTIES)
>   STRING(REGEX REPLACE ";" "\\\\;" MSVC_PROPERTIES "${MSVC_PROPERTIES}")
>   STRING(REGEX REPLACE "\n" ";" MSVC_PROPERTIES "${MSVC_PROPERTIES}")
>
>   FOREACH(e ${MSVC_PROPERTIES})
>     SET(INCLUDE ${INCLUDE} ${e})
>     MESSAGE(STATUS "[INFO]: Value ${e}")
>   ENDFOREACH(e)
>   INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${INCLUDE})
> ENDIF ()
>
> In the .deps file I've added to path of my dependeny modules, line separated:
>
> c:\binrev\development\boost\1.47\includes
> c:\binrev\repository\modules\brCore\trunk\includes
>
> Both are read successfully but couldn't be set as additional include directory in my MSVC solution.
>
> Best regards, Hellhound
>
>
>
>
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