If you don't mind maintaining your own CMake (or similar) script, the sourceprocessor in the SDK allows to specify a target directory for the generated files from R21 onwards.

I would not exactly recommend going that way, but for me it beats using the project tool.

@kbar said in Decoupling source from SDK project:

Since Maxon also updates the ProjectTool when a new version of C4D comes out and it may have new flags or optimazations and changes to the project structure for XCode and Visual Studio.

From what I can tell it's pretty stable, also I don't mind what someone else thinks my compiler optimisation flags should be.

Maintaining your own CMake version going forward for R20, R21, S22, RXX etc... would be a massive pain and just slow you down.

Not as painful as you think it might be, also not as slow.
Whatever floats your boat.

If you don't mind maintaining your own CMake (or similar) script, the sourceprocessor in the SDK allows to specify a target directory for the generated files from R21 onwards.

I would not exactly recommend going that way, but for me it beats using the project tool.

I guess this is a request.
Couldn't find anything in the SDK docs about it, would be useful to have.