Somewhat related, the following thread from a few days ago may be helpful:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake/2016-July/063897.html

In short, you probably want to use add_custom_target() without the ALL
keyword.



On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Michael Legleux <legl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a use case that I haven't had much luck googling.
>
> I have a project that needs to have files visible in the Visual Studio IDE
> but marked with the red "Excluded from build" symbol.
> The source files are not needed in any way for the visual studio project,
> but for example, they use functions defined in project source files, so
> they need to be searchable and updatable from the visual studio ide.
>
> I can't seem to find any nice clean way to do this with cmake (or anyway
> yet for that matter.)
>
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