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

[Brad King]

On 05/13/2013 02:07 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
> 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?

This looks like the common use case I explain here:

 http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=9974#c29033

You don't need any new features for it.

-Brad