[CMake] Proposal for changing the visual studio generator

[Gerhard Gappmeier]

Hi Joshua,

your solution is a good workaround. Thanks.
This workd for me too:
IF (CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
       SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TargetName} PROPERTIES PREFIX "../bin")
ENDIF(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")

Nevertheless I think my proposal makes sense anyway,
because it would work more like Visual Studio was intended for
and more like a CMake user would expect.

setting EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH should work without using
such workarounds.

Beside this I personly would prefer a path like
yourpath/bin/yourapp.exe
and not
yourpath/Debug/../bin/yourapp.exe ;-)
>> r as I understand, this is not possible with the current version of 
>> CMake.
> This has worked for me.
>
>    IF (CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
>        SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TargetName} PROPERTIES PREFIX "../")
>        SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TargetName} PROPERTIES DEBUG_POSTFIX "-D")
>    ENDIF(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
>
> Josh
>


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