use cmake to create visual studio projects out-of-source
In the following article we describe how to build Visual Studio projects with CMake out-of-source with still being able to maintain the particular folder structure of our source code. Also, we will be able to transmit changes directly to our src folder when working with Visual Studio. CMake in-source building CMake is a powerful tool to automate building of projects (e.g. C++ projects) or to generate workspaces/projects for particular IDEs in the first place. One issue, though, is that building…