[CMake] Looking for a way to post-process Visual Studio projects generated by CMake

[Petr Kmoch]

Hi Parag.

There is no way to hook arbitrary postprocessing, and as per
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13020 , that is by design.

For your specific issue, CMake has some support for customising a
.vc[x]proj using target properties like VS_KEYWORD or
VS_GLOBAL_<AnyVariableName>. You can look whether any of them might help
generate what you need.

Petr

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Parag Chandra <parag at ionicsecurity.com>
wrote:

>  I’ve been using the RC builds of CMake 3.1 to generate Visual Studio
> projects for Native Client. I have things working pretty well with a few
> workarounds, but I’m still having one problem that I can’t figure out a
> solution to. I am targeting the PNaCl environment of Native Client, and by
> default, Google’s project system for Visual Studio will perform a very
> expensive translation step to convert the final .pexe executable file into
> architecture-specific .nexe files, one each for x86, x86_64, and ARM. There
> are project settings to disable this translation step, but these options do
> not seem to translate into any compiler/linker flags that I can see.
> Instead, XML nodes are added to the resultant .vcxproj file when you
> disable the translation.
>
>  My question is if there is a way to post-process the .vcxproj file that
> CMake generates in order to add these additional XML nodes? The naïve thing
> I tried first is to just run a script to make the modifications, but of
> course the next time CMake runs it will regenerate the project file and
> wipe out these changes.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Parag Chandra
>
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