Visual Studio: C++ Project Include Paths sharing over Repository

Question

I was wondering how should I add my library include paths and linker paths in Visual Studio so that when I add my project to a repository, another developer checking out my project would not need to go through all the include paths and change them for his own machine. So, I am kind of looking at something like ${MY_THIRD_PARTY_LIB_INCLUDE_PATH}\\tbb\\include and ${MY_THIRD_PARTY_LIB_LINKER_PATH}\\tbb\\lib\\ia32\\vc11 so that someone accessing the project can just change MY_THIRD_PARTY_LIB_INCLUDE_PATH and MY_THIRD_PARTY_LIB_LINKER_PATH and everything works as intended. Can somebody suggest a best practice around this or may be how to accomplish what I just described?

Answer 1

In VisualStudio 2012 I use Project Properties

So if you go to the Propery Manager you Add a new Project Property Sheet to you project. From there, a couple of things can be set

User Macros - We create a macro here and put in a path for our environment. We crate a Macro called CUSTOM_DEBUG_PATHS, and then in the project we set the Debugging->Environment to path=$(PLA_DEBUG_PATHS);$(PATH)

The other thing that we do in the Project Property Sheet is change our Include and Library directories. We have everyone use relative paths, but you could put in an environment variable or something in here so that everyone could use the same file.