[CMake] Newbie question, building the exe to a directory

[Pingu]

An experienced friend of mine suggested getting CMake going on this 
project I was starting at the time. Naturally, I had never heard of it 
and he spend most of his time setting up the system. He left he group 
recently and I'm a bit lost at how to do even simple things. A little 
bit of help would be great. Here goes:

Right now, it's all set up so that individual files are in source 
directories and then CMake builds the project in a separate build 
folder. We use SVN and all have the build folder ignored so that we have 
our own copy locally and just share the source files. However, we're 
making an application that uses outside files in its directory and we 
need a way to put those files in with the exe and have SVN update them. 
All I'm asking for is a way to tell the compiler (VS8) to build the exe 
in a certain folder as opposed to the build folder where the project 
files are located. It really doesn't seem like it'd be that hard, but I 
really don't understand CMake all that well right now.

Thanks, pingu.