How do I change the startup project of a Visual Studio solution via CMake?

Question

I am using CMake to generate Visual Studio projects. Everything works fine except one thing.

The startup project in the solution is always ALL_BUILD. How do I change the startup project to the real project I want via CMake?

Answer 1

CMake now supports this with versions 3.6 and higher through the VS_STARTUP_PROJECT directory property:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6) project(foo) # ...  add_executable(bar ${BAR_SOURCES}) set_property(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} PROPERTY VS_STARTUP_PROJECT bar) 

This will set bar as the startup project for the foo.sln solution.