Qt VS Tools Property Manager Qt.props file location

Perdrix

I needed to change the configuration of Qt VS Tools a bit in Visual Studio, nothing major, I just needed to configure things so that the QTDIR variable was exported as an environment variable for the build. So I used the "Property Manager" and edited the user macros to do this.

This created a file in C:\Users\amonra\AppData\Local\QtMsBuild called Qt.props:

<!--
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Item type definition and default values
// -->
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <!--
  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  // Import private Qt property definitions
  // -->
  <ImportGroup Label="Qt">
    <Import Project="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)\qt_private.props" />
  </ImportGroup>
  <!--
  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  // User-defined settings
  // -->
  <PropertyGroup Label="UserMacros">
    <!-- Placeholder for user macros written by VS Property Manager -->
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup>
    <!-- Placeholder for properties written by VS Property Manager -->
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemDefinitionGroup>
    <!-- Placeholder for default metadata written by VS Property Manager -->
  </ItemDefinitionGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <!-- Placeholder for items written by VS Property Manager -->
    <BuildMacro Include="QTDIR">
      <Value>$(QTDIR)</Value>
      <EnvironmentVariable>true</EnvironmentVariable>
    </BuildMacro>
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

which is great and works for ME, but is no use for other users of the project - I need this to be held in the Solution directory, so it can be checked into the VCS (Github).

Is there a way to do this that can be stored in the solution directory as a .props file?

Thanks
Dave

Perdrix

Solution found, I edited the vcpkg.props file with gets loaded after Qt so that it sets the environment variable:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <ImportGroup Label="PropertySheets" />
  <PropertyGroup Label="UserMacros">
    <VCPKG_KEEP_ENV_VARS>QTDIR</VCPKG_KEEP_ENV_VARS>
    <QTDIR>$(QtInstallDir)</QTDIR>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup />
  <ItemDefinitionGroup />
  <ItemGroup>
    <BuildMacro Include="VCPKG_KEEP_ENV_VARS">
      <Value>$(VCPKG_KEEP_ENV_VARS)</Value>
      <EnvironmentVariable>true</EnvironmentVariable>
    </BuildMacro>
    <BuildMacro Include="QTDIR">
      <Value>$(QTDIR)</Value>
      <EnvironmentVariable>true</EnvironmentVariable>
    </BuildMacro>
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>