Ok, a little more progress... . The generated solution contains a reference to
the external project of the form.:
Project("{8AE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "EthernetBus",
"C:\work\software\main\Neul\libraries\EthernetBus\EthernetBus.csproj",
"{AE1392AF-506E-4648-A389-FBCCBB29D48B}"
EndProject
The (first) problem is with the 'main' GUID
(8AE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC). If I manually edit this GUID to the
one from the reference solution (created directly by visual studio), the
cmake-generated solution will now build. (Or at least, I can move on to the
next problem which is that ProjectConfigurationPlatforms need tweaking to "Any
CPU").
Any ideas as to how to get cmake to generate (or find) an appropriate main GUID
? (Note that the second GUID "AE....48B" is correct and presumably read from
the target project file.)
I probably should have mentioned before that I'm setting the dependency like
this inside the cmakelist.txt file so no particular 'magic'...
include_external_msproject(${PROJ_NAME} "${PPATH}")
add_dependencies(basestation ${PROJ_NAME})
Thanks,
Neil
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Neil MacMullen
Sent: 08 April 2011 16:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CMake] Visual Studio 10 with external project dependencies - error
MSB4192
I've now made considerable progress with creating a cmake configuration for a
managed (CLR) project which also links to external managed dlls. I can use
msbuild on ALL_BUILD.vcxproj to successfully create an executable etc.
Only one minor issue remains; I'd like to open the cmake-generated solution
file in visual studio to allow debugging and browsing of the solution
(including external project dependencies). Unfortunately, something in the
solution file is convincing visual studio that it has been generated by an
obsolete version and needs to be 'converted'. If I use msbuild on the
solution file I get the following error which is a strong clue....
C:\work\software\main\Neul\products\basestation\builds\Emulation>msbuild
Basestation.sln
Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 4.0.30319.1
[Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 4.0.30319.225]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2007. All rights reserved.
Build started 08/04/2011 16:22:52.
C:\work\software\main\Neul\products\basestation\builds\Emulation\Basestation.sln
: error MSB4192: The project file
"..\..\..\..\libraries\EthernetBus\EthernetBus.csproj" is in the ".vcproj" file
format, which MSBuild no longer supports. Please convert the project by opening
it in the Visual Studio IDE or running the conversion tool, or use MSBuild 3.5
or earlier to build it.
Build FAILED.
Now, it's most certainly the case that EthernetBus.csproj is NOT in the
'vcproj' format which I can easily verify by going and building it directly.
However, something about the layout of the solution file is confusing visual
studio. Inspecting it by eye and comparing to a working solution which also
includes EthernetBus.csproj doesn't reveal any 'obvious' problems; the GUID has
been correctly inserted in the solution etc. The section
GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
Contains win32 rather than "Any CPU" targets but even replacing these by hand
isn't enough to remove the msbuild error.
Anybody managed to work around this ?
Note, the project/solution was generated using the "Visual Studio 10" generator.
Thanks,
Neil
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