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

[Clinton Stimpson]

On Monday, May 13, 2013 03:03:27 PM Brad King wrote:
> 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

Yeah.  I was thinking something like Xcode where there are configurations, but 
I could put the libraries in a 'lib' directory and the executables in a 'bin' 
directory, where lib and bin have the same parent.

In other words, I want:
Debug/lib/
Debug/bin/
Debug/plugins/

instead of: 
lib/Debug/
bin/Debug/
plugins/Debug/

If I have plugins and resources, I'd want the first, even on Windows, where the 
bin and lib directory could be merged.

Clint