Re: [CMake] Custom platform with MSVC

2018-04-11 Thread Brad King 
On 04/11/2018 09:24 AM, Ales Borovicka wrote:
> We have a custom platform that does require to set properties in vcxproj like:
> $(PLATFORM_SDK_ROOT)
> 
> For regular projects we set this through user files, so it works for the
> generated projects. (it worked with cmake 3.7.0)

We don't currently support that officially.  CMake generates temporary
project files in several places, e.g. try_compile, that would not get
user-set properties from the project code.

In order to support a custom platform SDK CMake would need to be
taught a corresponding abstraction.  The VS generators already support
similar abstractions:

* CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET = v141 or some other toolset
* CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM = Win32, x64, etc.
* CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE = Which VS 2017 to use on local machine

All of these affect the way .vcxproj files are generated. If a
.vcxproj file needs an additional field for MSBuild to be able
to find the SDK then a similar abstraction will be needed.

I'd need to understand the use case better before recommending an
approach to such an abstraction.

-Brad
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[CMake] Custom platform with MSVC

2018-04-11 Thread Ales Borovicka 
Hi,
 I am having issues after upgrading cmake to 3.10.2.
We have a custom platform that does require to set properties in vcxproj
like:
$(PLATFORM_SDK_ROOT)

For regular projects we set this through user files, so it works for the
generated projects. (it worked with cmake 3.7.0)

Now in the new cmake version when I generate a project with VS 14 generator
selected it fails, because I have enabled the languages C/C++.
The problem is, that cmake does try to build a project to determine the
toolset (calling FindVCTargetsPath). This does generate a
project VCTargetsPath.vcxproj which is not compile-able for the custom
platform since the properties required for that platform are not defined
and there is no way how to set them.

Please what can I do here to disable the toolset check or get around it?

Thanks a lot,
Ales
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