Sharpmake Add option to force project references export

Similarly to #219, I am working on sharing the precompiled header between multiple projects. To make this possible, the other projects must be exported as a reference. MSVC does otherwise not wait for the compilation to finish.

Right now, project references are not exported for static libraries. And while ExportAdditionalLibrariesEvenForStaticLib exists as a configuration option, it does more things at once, often resulting in already defined in X.lib(X.dll); second definition ignored warnings.

Therefore, this pull request adds an option to force the export of these references regardless of the output type of the project.

Sep 30 '22 08:09 ShawnCZek

Hi, Sorry for the lack of updates. Lambert left Ubisoft and we had to rebuild a new maintainer group.

We will take a look at this MR soon.

Mar 22 '23 13:03 jspelletier

@jspelletier is this related to https://github.com/ubisoft/Sharpmake/issues/146? it's the same config option

Mar 23 '23 15:03 bchampoux

@ShawnCZek could you add/modify some sample using this?

May 12 '23 13:05 jspelletier

@jspelletier I can take a look at trying to integrate this into existing samples. However, as pointed out earlier here, #253 basically collides with this PR. And if that one is merged, this can be closed.

May 20 '23 10:05 ShawnCZek

@ShawnCZek The problem with #253 is it doesn't have an explicit option and will affect our existing generated files so it won't ever be merged in its current state,

May 23 '23 12:05 jspelletier

Perfect. Thank you for the answer! In the following days, I will take a look at modifying the existing samples to integrate this change. Once that is done, I will mention you here again.

May 23 '23 14:05 ShawnCZek