We have an uber-project that brings in several sub-projects via add_subdirectory().
Several of these creates a large number of static library Targets which they then assemble into the dynamic libraries and executables that we actually consume in the uber-project.
This results in the UI of the Visual Studio IDE “Solution” pane showing all the targets in a flat list, including all the ‘private’ static libraries for each of the subprojects.
As there are a really large number of Targets in some of the sub-directories, this makes it quite difficult to quickly find the proper sub-project.
I’d like to organise them into folders, however the only option I’ve found so far is set_target_properties(list of targets PROPERTIES FOLDERS “folder”)
While that works, it’s not really maintainable because I have to list all the Targets created by the sub-project, most of which are static libraries whose names are effectively “hidden” from the uber-project.
Is there a way to set the FOLDER property for all the targets created via add_directory(), so I can place the whole thing into an appropriate folder without needing to know the names of any of the private targets?