How to open project sources in Visual Studio if there is no sln file?

Question

C++ / C#

Good afternoon everyone, I downloaded the LuxRender renderer sources, I wanted to open them in Visual Studio, but they do not have a solution file that allows you to open the project. I create a new project and upload all the code there, but the files are added to the project not divided into folders, as it should be. How to do? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There are CmakeList.txt files there, which means that you need to use cmake. It can generate sln and vsproj files with project description. And the folder structure is not the main problem. CmakeList.txt stores information about dependencies and environment variables.

Answer 2

The division into folders is just stored in the project file and in the filters. Strictly speaking, these are not folders. These are filters. They must be created manually. The presence of folders in the project does not affect the compilation process in any way.