CMake Magic

This is my dumping ground for handy CMake snippets.

LoadSources.cmake - Load Sources for Visual Studio

This script recursively loads all CPP (.h, .cc, .cpp) source files from a certain folder and creates the necessary source_groups so that directory structure is maintained within Visual Studio's Solution Explorer.

Why is this useful?

Without this script you'd need to hand-code a CMakeLists.txt with a list of every source file AND declare source_groups for each folder so that the files are grouped into the proper folders in Visual Studio's Solution Explorer. This gets too tedious for large CMake projects so I decided to automate it.

Usage:

load_sources(src_list, "src_path")

• src_list: [out] Variable to store the resulting list of source paths. All results will be appended to the end of the list if it already exists.
• "src_path": String containing the directory path to recursively search for source files in.

Example:

Look at CMakeLists.txt for a full example of use.