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Convert CMake.txt to .vcxproj file C++ Visual Studio project

It is any tool or possibility to convert a C++ CMake project into a C++ Visual Studio project with a .vcxproj file?

I need this because we want to offer CMake support at the project I'm working for, but we need to make this conversion first. I searched a lot and didn't find anything about this conversion, at least not yet.

Any opinion or suggestion is highly appreciated. Thank you!

Solution

  • This is what cmake does, generates projects for almost any IDE or build manager.

    So for VS 2017 it can be used like this:

    cd "<path where CMakeLists.txt is located>"
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES="Debug;Release" -DCMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM=x64 -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" ..
cmake --open .