[CMake] Visual Studio 2012 Beta: unable to compile individual files

[Brad King]

On 06/11/2012 07:21 PM, Ben Medina wrote:
> Has anyone tried the Visual Studio 2012 beta with CMake's "Visual
> Studio 11" generator? I've tried with several projects, and even a
> simple project that just contains main.cpp has the same problem:
> compiling a single file does not work. Instead, I get this in the
> output window:
> 
> 1>Error: Cannot build selected files.
> 
> This seems to be because the paths to source files are absolute in the
> CMake-generated project file. If I use Visual Studio's project wizard
> to create a new project, the paths are relative, since the vcxproj and
> the source files are in the same directory. Changing the
> project-wizard-generated file to use absolute paths results in the
> same error.
> 
> Any thoughts? Should I file a bug with Microsoft?

If you manually edit the hand-generated project file saved by the IDE
to change the sources to full paths, does that by itself cause the
problem?

Thanks,
-Brad