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

[Maik Keller]

Hi,

> Now, I've got it to build the exe in the "bin" folder, but Visual Studio 
> is being annoying by building it in "bin/debug". I've already tried 
> "set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release)" but that doesn't remove the debug 
> folder. Thanks.


Someone here on the mailing list mentioned a workaround for this problem recently. I adapted his solution to my own project:

SET(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/bin)

And later while building the executable file:

IF(MSVC)
	SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(shortDemo PROPERTIES PREFIX "../")
	SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(shortDemo PROPERTIES DEBUG_POSTFIX "_debug")
ENDIF(MSVC)


This solution steps back one folder (for MSVC) and stores the executable directly in the output path.

-Mick 



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