[CMake] CMAKE changing Visual Studio Settings

[Joseph Rosensweig]

Thanks for all the help on this topic.

The user file generation worked like a charm.  Really helped out a lot.

Thanks to Nils as well for the great advice.  This makes my MSVC projects
much more manageable.

Thanks!


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Eric Clark <eclark at ara.com> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CMake [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf Of John
> > Drescher
> > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 3:55 PM
> > To: Joseph Rosensweig
> > Cc: CMake ML
> > Subject: Re: [CMake] CMAKE changing Visual Studio Settings
> >
> > > So CMAKE can't control the options int he *.user files I guess :-\?
> > > Would a potential workaround be to find a command line tool that can
> > > edit these and run it as a post-build script?
> >
> > CMake gives you the functionality needed to edit these via your own
> script. I
> > mean reading and writing files replacing text.
>
> In our CMake system, we wanted to be able to set the program to execute
> when "Start Debugging" was clicked in Visual Studio. This option is stored
> in the *.user file and thus you cannot change it via CMake directly.
> However, you CAN build a template of the *.user file and put some CMake
> variables inside of it. Then, when you build the project files with CMake,
> you can use the configure_file command to create the user's *.user file
> from the template and the values you have for each variable in the
> template. This option works beautifully and it is very easy to setup.
>
> Hope this helps...
> Eric
>
> >
> > John
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