Add multiple include directories from a txt file

Question

I have a text file with many many paths that need to be added to: Additional Include Directories. Is there a possibility to copy all of them at once or include them directly from a txt file?

I have seen this SO post: Recursive Include Paths in Visual Studio 2015

Which suggest a syntax such as: /I "MY_PATH/TO/INCLUDE/DIR"

and then use: @IncludeDirs.txt to the Additional Include Directories. But it does not seem to work for me. I placed the txt file in the root folder of the solution.

Answer 1

What I ended up is formatting my path from the text file with semicolons on line breaks and adding the include directories directly into the .vxproj file:

<AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
  ..\..\some\dir;
  ..\another\dir;
  ...
</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>

Same also works for linking libs:

<AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
  ...
</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
<AdditionalDependencies>
  some_library.lib;
  another.lib;
  ...
</AdditionalDependencies>