[Scons-users] MSVSProject Intellisense search paths

[William Blevins]

After looking at the User Guide, you might find these two variables useful.

MSVS_SCC_AUX_PATH

The path name placed in a generated Microsoft Visual Studio project file as
the value of the SccAuxPath attribute if the MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER construction
variable is also set. There is no default value.
MSVS_SCC_CONNECTION_ROOT

The root path of projects in your SCC workspace, i.e the path under which
all project and solution files will be generated. It is used as a reference
path from which the relative paths of the generated Microsoft Visual Studio
project and solution files are computed. The relative project file path is
placed as the value of the SccLocalPath attribute of the project file and
as the values of the SccProjectFilePathRelativizedFromConnection[i] (where
[i] ranges from 0 to the number of projects in the solution) attributes of
the GlobalSection(SourceCodeControl) section of the Microsoft Visual Studio
solution file. Similarly the relative solution file path is placed as the
values of the SccLocalPath[i] (where [i] ranges from 0 to the number of
projects in the solution) attributes of the GlobalSection(SourceCodeControl)
section of the Microsoft Visual Studio solution file. This is used only if
the MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER construction variable is also set. The default value
is the current working directory.


On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 2:38 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Albert Gil <albert.gil at happycomputing.cat
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> If I'm not wrong, what Sergio is trying to say is that, although the list
>> of paths in CPPPATH is copied into the NMakeIncludeSearchPath field of
>> the .vcxproj file created by the MSVSProject() function, its format is not
>> recognized by the Intellisense. And the whole point of doing this copy is
>> to be recognized by the Intellisense, right?
>> Is that right Sergio?
>>
>
> My hope is that he will come back with how Intellisense is supposed to
> handle relative paths. I expect there is either a missing element in the
> MSVCProject output, but I'm not an MSVC guru.
>
>
>> And if you put absolute paths in your CPPATH, then it does work, right?
>>
>> So, the building works in both cases, but CPPATH values should be set
>> with absolute values to be useful in NMakeIncludeSearchPath?
>> To me, it doesn't have sense... I'm sure that Intellisene works with
>> relative paths.
>> So, it sounds like a format problem of relative paths?
>> Not sure...
>>
>>
> I certainly don't expect relative paths to be an issue, but if relative
> paths are at play, then I imagine the base directory needs to be added to
> some path variable. I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen in the
> project file. It seems that if the files are relative, then hardcoding this
> base path in the project file undermines the point.
>
>
>>
>> Albert
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Sergio Basurco <
>> sergio.b at coherentsynchro.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It very likely is, however if it is the case that Intellisense requires
>>> absolute paths, or that the relative paths are not intuitively relative to
>>> the VS project, then maybe Scons could internally generate them as absolute
>>> within MSVSProject.
>>>
>>> These are the paths that go into the the NMakeIncludeSearchPath tag in
>>> .vcxproj files.
>>>
>>> I will try to find out what are the Intellisense assumptions and come
>>> back in case it's useful. Maybe it's an issue that was only related to my
>>> installation, I don't know if any other Scons user has found Intellisense
>>> to fail within the VS IDE.
>>>
>>> Best!
>>>
>>> El 15-Apr-16 a las 11:37 AM, William Blevins escribió:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure this is SCons related. Seems to be a question about
>>> Intellisense relative path assumptions.
>>> On Apr 15, 2016 9:22 AM, "Sergio Basurco" <sergio.b at coherentsynchro.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm creating a MSVSProject from Scons. This project has some other
>>>> libraries as dependencies and everything is working well in compile
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>> However, in the IDE, Intellisense fails to find all the includes of the
>>>> external dependencies (the own project's include files are found). And
>>>> in order to solve this I had to change all paths used for building in
>>>> scons to absolute paths.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently Intellisense search paths needed to be absolute? or else
>>>> maybe they were not relative to the .vcxproj directory but some other
>>>> directory?
>>>>
>>>> I have no issues now but would like to know why this was necessary.
>>>>
>>>> Best!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sergio Basurco,
>>>> Coherent Synchro
>>>>
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>>
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