[CMake] dependency in custom command?
Alexander Neundorf
a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Sat Sep 5 15:54:08 EDT 2009
On Friday 28 August 2009, King, Steven R wrote:
> Hello List,
> I'm new to cmake and liking it a lot. I'm using cmake 2.6.3 on Linux.
>
> I'm building a dynamically loadable module and an executable to test it.
> Each lives in a different directory. My test program needs to know the
> location of the dll when calling dlopen(). To solve this, I created a
> custom command to copy the dll to the binary directory of the test program.
> This works, but I have an annoying dependency problem. Specifically, if
> the dll gets rebuilt, the copy command does not execute. The copy command
...
> # Create a custom build step to copy the dynamically loaded .so file
> # into the this directory so our test executable can find it.
> add_custom_command (
> TARGET test_my_module
> POST_BUILD
> DEPENDS my_module # no effect?
> COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${SO_LOCATION}
> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} COMMENT "CUSTOM COMMAND: Copy my_module to
> build directory" )
>
>
> What should I do make the copy happen if the dll is rebuilt?
I must be missing something, but can't you assign the custom command to the
module instead to the executable ?
add_custom_command(TARGET my_module
POST_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${SO_LOCATION}
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
)
Alex
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