Visual Studio Configuration: IntelliSense fails ❓

[MarAlder]

Does anyone have any experience or tips for using/configuring Visual Studio? Evaluating CMake, compiling, debugging etc. works fine. Only IntelliSense usually fails for files under tests (TIGL_BUILD_TESTS is set to ON).

• Windows 11 23H2
• Visual Studio v17.13.5
• Works fine under VSCode or CLion, so I don't expect larger issues on the TiGL CMake-configuration

[MarAlder]

I found out (with a hint from @rainman110) that the custom target check_tigl causes IntelliSense to fail. This is certainly related to how Visual Studio creates solutions for each target. Apparently, the add_custom_target is not treated as an executable, so the includes are not evaluated.

For now, I can continue working by simply commenting out the line. Another idea would be to wrap the line in a CMake boolean, such as BUILD_CHECK_TIGL, but there might also be a smarter workaround in Visual Studio 🤷‍♂️ (I'm still struggling with this IDE...).

tigl/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt

Line 9 in ab8a1a4

ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(check_tigl ${test_BIN} --gtest_output=xml DEPENDS ${test_BIN} COMMENT "Executing unit tests..." VERBATIM SOURCES ${test_SRCS})