Trying to setup two parallel environments, with a separate .sln's, but the same vcxproj's, since I'm working with 100+ projects. I want different OutDir and IntermediateDir's, so I put this in the variant props file for each configuration:
<PropertyGroup>
<OutDir Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Release|Win32'">$(Configuration)5\</OutDir>
<IntDir Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Release|Win32'">$(Configuration)5\</IntDir>
<OutDir Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">$(Configuration)5\</OutDir>
<IntDir Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'">$(Configuration)5\</IntDir>
</PropertyGroup>
Same without the 5's in the other .props. Seems to work ok for building, but for starting apps, it tries to find things in SolutionDir/Release5/foo.exe instead of foodir/Release/foo.exe. I assume this is because of the relative path being parsed incorrectly. What am I missing?
Turned out that <OutputFile> also needed to be tweaked. I just made it defined in terms of $(OutDir) and it resolved the problem