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

[Brad King]

On 05/13/2013 02:55 PM, Clinton Stimpson wrote:
> To avoid the copy step, would it be useful to make generator expressions work 
> in target properties?

The copy in my example in the issue is for an external dependency.

> set_target_properties(mylib PROPERTIES
>   LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIGURATION>/lib")
> set_target_properties(myexe PROPERTIES
>   RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIGURATION>/bin")

For in-project targets one can simply set the output directory to
be the same for .dll and .exe files.

-Brad