Visual studio project for header only library

Question

I\'m creating a CMake project whose two main files are:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10 FATAL_ERROR)
project(CPP_Algorithms_and_Data_Structures)

set( CM         


        

Answer 1

As far as I know there is no normal way to do it. Only a hackish one. So you create a custom target which will force MSVC to show the project in the solution tree. Something like this:

add_custom_target(${PROJECT_NAME}_ SOURCES ${PROJECT_SOURCES})

Note the underscore in the name: it is there to differentiate it from the name in the add_library command. Of course you need to replace the variables in my example to yours actual ones.

Answer 2

Another solution is to declare static library with stub source file:

file(TOUCH ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/stub.cpp)

add_library(elementary-data-structures STATIC
    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/stub.cpp"
    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/list.h"
    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/list.tcc"
)
target_include_directories(elementary-data-structures INTERFACE ./)