<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Hi, I’ve been experimenting with using Visual Studio’s “Custom Build Tool” per cpp file to perform some specialized operations. However, the property page is not visible (not editable) when I generate a project with cmake. To see what this looks like, see here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msbuild/thread/496e301c-de2e-49bf-bbfa-ea8de335a0a5 .</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">To reproduce:</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">1)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Generate a c++ project for visual studio (I’m using vs2010)</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">2)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Right click a .cpp file in the solution and go to properties</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">3)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Under Configuration Properties/General, change “Item Type” to “Custom Build Tool”</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">4)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Click Apply</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">5)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Select Configuration Properties / Custom Build Tool / General</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times
new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">I’ve attempted to hand edit the solution and project files to determine what is causing this but nothing I removed seemed to have any affect.</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Any ideas on how to fix this or where to look?</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Michael Guerrero</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Programmer at Delta3D</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Research Associate, MOVES Institute,
Naval Postgraduate School</font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Monterey, CA</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>