[CMake] Confikgurations and Platforms in Visual Studio 8

[Sylvain Benner]

> Answering my own question, after a bit of research, it appears that
> cmake doesn't natively deal with cross-platform building for Visual
> Studio Projects.  Instead it tests to see whether to generate Win32 or
> x64 project file configurations.
>
> In the environment we've got, we want to build Win32, Xbox 360 and
> Playstation 3 binaries, all from a Win32 box.  I wonder what the best
> way to tweak cmake to do this is.  My first thoughts are to do away with
> Visual Studio altogether, as its vcproj files are pretty hard coded into
> cmake.  Instead I'm playing with using a traditional make, but I still
> need vcproj "external make" files, as the developers are using visual
> studio.
>
> I've ordered the book - perhaps I'll get some hints from there.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who is already doing this kind
> of thing.
> Joe
Well, you can generate one vcproj per platform. Yes it can end with a 
lot of project files but if it's well organized with a good folder tree, 
it is alright.
Here we build on PS3, XBOX360,WII, WIN32, WINCE, MACOSX, each platform 
has its own vcproj and sln and other type of projects we need.
We also differenciate between WIN32 static and WIN32 dynamic for 
instance because we have decided to have only one target per 
CMakeLists.txt at a time, this way it's easier to understand what is 
built in Visual Studio projects.

--Sylvain