[CMake] How To Copy Media Files Into Out-Of-Source Build

[Karol Krizka]

Hi,

Thank you both for you suggestions. I think I will go with
execute_process and symlinks. Since the files are movies, they are quite
big and links are thus more efficient.

Just a quick, side, off-topic question. Does Windows support symlinks?
--
Cheers,
Karol Krizka

On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 20:25 +0200, Michael Wild wrote:
> Or:
> 
> configure_file( path/to/old_file ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/path/to/new_file  
> COPYONLY )
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 5. Jul, 2009, at 17:27, Adolfo Rodríguez wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Karol Krizka <kkrizka at gmail.com>  
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> Is there a generic way to have CMake copy (or link to) required files
> >> (ei: movies) into an out-of-source build directory?
> >
> >
> > If symlinks work for you, you can do:
> >
> > execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink old new)
> >
> >
> > If what you really want to do is create a copy, you can change the
> > 'create_symlink' option with 'copy' (for individual files) or
> > 'copy_directory' (for entire directories). However, it looks like  
> > for your
> > use case you can get away with symlinks, if your platform allows  
> > them, that
> > is.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Adolfo
> >
> >
> >
> >> When I build in an
> >> out-of-source directory, I would also like to test from the same
> >> directory without having to take any additional steps.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >> Karol Krizka
> >>
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