[Visual Studio] Setting arbitary configuration properties in project file

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1

Is there a way to set arbitrary configuration properties in a Visual Studio project file from CMake?

As a concrete example I would like the following to appear in the generated project file:

<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|Win32'" Label="Configuration">
    <UseDebugLibraries>true</UseDebugLibraries>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Release|Win32'" Label="Configuration">
    <UseDebugLibraries>false</UseDebugLibraries>
</PropertyGroup>

There is VS_GLOBAL_<variable>, but this puts the variable in the global properties group, not in a configuration specific group.

2

Does VS_USER_PROPS help? It is per-target and doesn’t support a CMAKE_VS_USER_PROPS variable, but maybe it can help?

3

Yes, VS_USER_PROPS does work, thanks :slight_smile: