set_target_properties (ATKCore_static PROPERTIESįor instance, the result in one of my solutions will be like this: Project hierarchy in Visual Studio

Now each target can have some of its properties set. Please note that this must be called before any target definition. To activate the folders in a solution, first this property has to be set: set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY USE_FOLDERS ON) There seems to be pieces everywhere, but the documentation itself was not clear enough for me, so here we go. This is the part that I had more trouble finding on Internet. Here is what it looks on ATKCore, compared to ATKDelay that hasn’t this macro:įiles hierarchy in Visual Studio Sort projects inside the solution So here I used the file system hierarchy, but it is possible to sort the files by generation process, by type, by date… It tells CMake to put one or more files in a specific folder inside a project. The trick is managed through the SOURCE_GROUP command. If target doesn’t exist, or if you want to create a different hierarchy, change this value.

I’ve modified a macro I found online for this purpose:įOREACH(file $”. My personal preference is to have all files that are in the same folder in the same folder in a project as well, following the file system hierarchy. So let’s start with sorting files inside a project. And as this works for Xcode projects and Visual Studio projects, I was really eager to sort out my Audio Toolkit main project, so it will be the basis of the tests here. They are activated differently, and it’s sometimes not as straightforward, but it works great once it is set up. And then I learnt that projects can actually be moved to folders, just like what is possible for files in a project (so you don’t have Source Files and Header Files, but something custom, for instance following the file hierarchy). The private project I’m working on has 130 subprojects, all in a single solution, that’s just too much to display in one window. Sometimes Visual Studio and Xcode projects just get out of hand.

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