[CMake] GUIDs, Dependencies, and INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu May 3 22:53:52 EDT 2007


Timothy Bryant wrote:
>
> I'm using INCLUDE_EXTERNAL_MSPROJECT with dependencies.  The generated 
> solution file creates new GUIDs for these external projects which do 
> not match the GUIDs inside the respective project files.
>
> I have two different minor builds of Visual Studio 8 and they seem to 
> handle this situation differently.  One VS8 will reassign the project 
> GUID from the solution file (modifying the project files when the 
> solution is closed).  The other VS8 does not and as a result the 
> project dependencies are ignored.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
This bug is fixed in CVS and on the 2.4 branch, but is not yet in a release.

-Bill



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