<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"></span><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Greetings fellow CMake users!</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">While I know this topic has been <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=cmake+visual+studio+solution+with+relative+paths&oq=cmake+visual+studio+solution+with+relative+paths&aqs=chrome..69i57.6599j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">discussed intermittently over the years</a>  I was wondering if anyone had any further insight.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">The situation is that we have a client who works with other contractors who use almost exclusively windows and MSVS. This client wants to distribute MSVS solution files with the source code so that other contractors don’t have to install cmake. (There are some restrictions/red tape for installing additional software on the contractor machines…)</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">I know the official party line is “CMake must use absolute paths, rerun CMake to regenerate the MSVS solution files.” I also know that <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS</code> was abandoned.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Does anyone have any updated insight on this issue? Is there any mechanism, other than either manually or automatically editing the solution files to cause them to use relative paths?</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Another thought might be to include a statically linked CMake windows binary with the source, but I need to investigate whether the CMake licensing allows for that.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Thanks,<br>Zaak</p><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Izaak "Zaak" Beekman<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br>HPC Scientist<br><a href="http://www.paratools.com/" target="_blank">ParaTools Inc.</a><div><a href="mailto:ibeekman@paratools.com">ibeekman@paratools.com</a></div><div dir="ltr">1509 16th St, NW</div><div dir="ltr">Washington, DC 20036</div>mobile: <a href="tel:(917)%20797-3239" value="+19177973239" target="_blank">(917) 797-3239</a><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div>
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