[CMake] Q: How do I _portably_ create a directory in the binary directory

[kent williams]

Never mind, I found it in the 'FILE' command...

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:26 AM, kent williams
<nkwmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am CMake-izing a non-CMake project -- or rather we have CMake-ized
> it, and are doing some clean up.
>
> We have a testing shell script that I'm converting to CTest tests.
> The first thing it does is create a directory where it drops all the
> testing output.
>
> I'd like to do the same thing -- create a directory as a child of
> ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} to drop files created via testing.
>
> How do I do that in CMake?  I've done some googling and reading
> through the documentation without seeing any clues.
>
> I know that CMake itself uses portable routines (from kwsys) to make
> directories, but that isn't exposed anywhere.
>
> Do I need to write a CMake Macro for this, so that Unix and OSX do
>
> mkdir -p "${PATH_TO_MAKE}"
>
> and Windows does
>
> cmd.exe /e:on /c mkdir "${PATH_TO_MAKE}"
>
> ?
>