Fwd: Re: [CMake] Copying matching files

[Hugo Costelha]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 16:07, you wrote:
> Hugo Costelha wrote:
> > I need to copy all files that match a certain patter during compilation
> > time. I am currenlty using the following in CMakeLists.txt:
> >
> > FILE(GLOB luts "lut*")
> > FOREACH(file ${luts})
> >     GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(basename ${file} NAME)
> >     ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET( luts ALL
> >                        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
> >                         -E copy ${file} ${LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH} )
> > ENDFOREACH(file)
> >
> >
> > However, there is a huge problem with this code. It creates fixed rules
> > when running "cmake .", i.e., if I run "cmake .", then create a file
> > lutA, then run make, it will not copy lutA, since it didn't exist when I
> > ran cmake.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good alternative to do this, that really performs
> > something like "cp lut* <location>"?
>
> You can add a custom target that runs
>
> cmake -P myscript.cmake
>
> and then put the glob/copy code in the script.  In the script use
> EXECUTE_PROCESS to call cmake -E copy in a FOREACH on the result of the
> glob.

Thanks for the quick reply. However, I still have a problem. Running the
script, it has no knowledge of  ${LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH}, which has been
defined previously. Can I pass some arguments, or something?

Hugo Costelha

P.S.: Sorry for double posting, I had mistaken the e-mail address.