[cmake-developers] Need some pointers on learning the code

[Robert Dailey]

Actually now that I think about this a littler closer, changing the
generator expressions may not work for a specific case I'm blocked on.

I store my third party library binaries in a "debug" and "release"
directories. I have a custom target that I define to copy the
appropriate debug or release DLLs to the appropriate output
directories, so that when I debug my applications, they find the
appropriate DLLs in the same directory. So the copy mapping should be
as follows:

debug -> Debug
release -> Release
release -> RelWithDebInfo
release -> MinSizeRel

Specifically for the RELEASE case. I can't use $<CONFIGURATION> for
the source directory, since the name is "release" between all 3
release configurations. This case is easily solved with issue 9974,
however. Any thoughts?

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 05/13/2013 10:10 AM, Robert Dailey wrote:
>> I am familiar with bug 9974 and I've been following it for quite some
>> time :) I thought there was enough interest in the feature (especially
>> from myself) to work on it. However, I do like the idea of generator
>> expressions being supported in OUTPUT, this is a more ideal situation
>> and would only affect the multi-configuration generators, so I don't
>> have to change the command options & stuff which I have found so far
>> to be a nightmare (mostly because I am unfamiliar with the code base).
>> 13840 sounds much easier. If no one else is working on that, I can
>> invest my time into it instead.
>
> I don't think anyone is working on 13840 currently.
>
> Grep the source tree for "GetOutputs" to find places that will
> need to be taught to expand generator expressions.
>
> -Brad