Does Blender use CMake to create project for visual studio?

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hello, I’m a Houdini and blender user, in Houdini when you’re gonna code something in visual studio
you should use CMake, we have a CMakeLists.txt with a bunch of code in it in term of creating visual studio project to work with Houdini HDK

what should I do for blender?
I read something about compiling blender:

### Automatic CMake Setup

If you're not interested in manually setting up CMake build directory, configuring, building and installing in separate steps, we provide a convenience batch file in Blender's source directory which sets up CMake for you.

To update to the latest version and build, use:

cd C:\blender-git\blender make

*(this requires git and svn to be in your systems PATH).*

By default Blender builds will be similar to official releases. Many [Build Options and Targets](https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender/Options) are available for debugging, faster builds, and to enable or disable various features.

For a full list of the optional targets type...

make help

but it says compiling

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Yes, cmake is used to build Visual Studio projects for Blender. Other than that, I’m not sure what you are asking here. What do you want to do?

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Is there any documentation to create visual studio project with CMake

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https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender/Windows

This Building from within the Visual Studio IDE section explains how you can create a Visual Studio project for the Blender source code. If that is not what you need, you should be much more precise about what you actually want to do.

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