[CMake] WORKING_DIRECTORY ignored for ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND on VisualStudio?

[Martin Apel]

Bill Hoffman 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
>
I finally found it. I had already looked at the build output, but as 
there was a new-line missing and I simply added it to the 
CMakeLists.txt, where I needed it, so it was buried in other output. Sorry.
Anyway, the directory is always equal to ${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}, no 
matter what I specify as WORKING_DIRECTORY in ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND.

Regards,

Martin


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