[Development] Visual Studio generator "autogen"

[Joerg Bornemann]

On 4/9/26 12:44 AM, Scott Bloom wrote:

> When I use AUTO functionality for qt and cmake, it generates additional 
> targets, that tend to clutter the IDE solution.
> 
> I always run with
> 
> set_property( GLOBAL PROPERTY USE_FOLDERS ON )

[...]

> First, doesn’t anyone know how to set the folder property on the autogen 
> targets?
> 
> Second, what do people think about adding a 
> “QT_GENERATED_TARGETS_FOLDER” into the Qt cmake flow, so this is done 
> automatically?

With a recent enough Qt and using qt_standard_project_setup() [1] I 
don't see the target clutter.
Which versions of
- Qt
- CMake
- Visual Studio
are you using?

Also, there is QT_TARGETS_FOLDER [2] which seems to serve the purpose of 
your proposed QT_GENERATED_TARGETS_FOLDER.

I have mentioned this also the last time you brought this up:
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2025-October/046663.html


Cheers,

Joerg

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qt-standard-project-setup.html
[2] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/cmake-global-property-qt-targets-folder.html