CMake can generate Visual Studio projects, which is great! However, it looks like they are not supposed to be included in the source code repository. Sometimes I need to cooperate with people who are not familiar with CMake and are used to VS solution/vcxproj or is a legacy project where CLR/C++ is used for C#/Cpp communication. Is there a way to generate valid VS Cpp projects that would be OK to be shared along with the source code?
The build trees (including the .vcxproj files) are not meant to be relocatable, and are specific to the machine you’re on. They are supposed to be generated by each user.
Generating the .vcxproj files from the CMake project is not that difficult, especially with the CMake GUI.