[CMake] Visual Studio: Add file to project without compiling it

[Matthias Riechmann]

Yes, I already tried that without detecting any effect. Seems like VS is 
quite persistent on files it thinks to be able to handle by itself. I 
will have a look on your feature request.
Thanks a lot for your effords!

Matthias




Eric Noulard schrieb:
> 2008/10/20 Matthias Riechmann <riechmann at ira.uka.de>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to make CMake including a file in way so that it is visible in a
>> generated visual studio project and can be edited in this way, but is not
>> processed by the compiler.
> 
> Yes I think this issue is coming out more and more.
> I've just filed a feature request for this:
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7835
> 
>> The reason I need this is as followed: I have some CORBA IDL files that I'd
>> like to process using a custom macro calling add_custom_command to run the
>> idl compiler. So far it works quite well, the file is processed on build,
>> but since I don't specify the IDL file as a source file in the
>> add_executable command it doesn't appear in visual studio. When adding it to
>> the source files Microsoft's MIDL compiler tries to work on this file as
>> well, which is not what I intended to do.
> 
> Did you try to add it as a source and then specify that it is "HEADER_FILE_ONLY"
> with
> 
> set_source_files_properties(<yourfile.idl> PROPERTIES HEADER_FILE_ONLY TRUE)
> 
>> So, is it in any way possible to just show a custom file in Visual Studio?
> 
> I don't think so, thus the feature request.
> Do not hesitate to add comment to it if you find it useful.
> 
> 

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