[CMake] WORKING_DIRECTORY ignored for ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND on VisualStudio?

[David Cole]

Try just "cd" -- cd . does not give any output at all, it's just a no-op...
cd without any arguments prints the current working directory just like
pwd...




On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Martin Apel wrote:
>
>> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>> Martin Apel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Brad,
>>>>
>>>> this is kind of difficult under Windows, as far as I know. I have MSys
>>>> installed on my machine, but the pwd "command" is not really a command (i.e.
>>>> .exe) under MSys, but a shell script, which invokes
>>>> the shell command "pwd". Windows sees the file with the "pwd" command in
>>>> C:\MSys\bin as an ordinary file, not an executable. So I cannot call this
>>>> from within ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND. As I am no Windows expert, I haven't found
>>>> any other way. Can you recommend a way, how to do this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> cd .
>>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> this doesn't result in any output at all:
>> ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND (COMMAND cd .
>>                                                  WORKING_DIRECTORY
>> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
>>
>> I think "cd ." cannot work, because there is no cd.exe under Windows. I
>> even tried "C:/WINNT/System32/cmd.exe /C cd .", but this didn't work either.
>>
>>
> It does work.   The output is going to be in that html file that visual
> studio creates when it does the build.  I think you have to cntrl-click to
> see it.
>
> -Bill
>
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