[CMake] WORKING_DIRECTORY ignored for ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND on Visual Studio?

[Brad King]

Martin Apel wrote:
>                   WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}

For VS this is the default working directory if no WORKING_DIRECTORY is
given.

> This calls a perl script to generate a bunch of Fortran files as needed.
> This script has to run in the output directory. I have checked the
> generated .vcproj file and it doesn't contain anything related to
> the working directory for this command. I modified the command to use
>                   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E chdir ${PERL_EXECUTABLE}
> ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/createFortAccessors.pl
> and now it works properly. But still, my impression is, that the Visual
> Studio generator ignores this parameter.

Have you tried a custom command that just prints the working directory
to see where it is?

-Brad