[CMake] Non-build output

[Clark Gaebel]

I'm doing exclusively out-of-source builds, so this is perfect. Thank you!

Regards,
  -- Clark

On 06/20/10 16:31, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2010/6/20 Clark Gaebel <cg.wowus.cg at gmail.com>:
>   
>> How would I go about placing a text file in the same directory as a
>> target's output?
>>
>> For example, let's say I have a target called "foo", which creates an
>> executable. "foo" has a config file called "foo.conf" that should always
>> go in the same directory. At the moment, it resides in the src/
>> directory for the "foo" target. How would I get it to automatically copy
>> into the same directory as the foo executable as part of the build process?
>>
>> For bonus points, how would this interact with "make install"?
>>     
> Concerning install:
>
> Your target foo may be installed with
> install(TARGETS foo DESTINATION where/you/want)
>
> Your config file with
> install(FILE foo.conf DESTINATION where/you/want)
>
> Now if you want to put the foo.conf near to foo **in the build tree**
> **and assuming foo.conf is in the same source dir as foo sources**
> you may do:
> configure_file(foo.conf foo.conf COPYONLY)
>
> this should copy foo.conf from source tree to binary tree.
> It may be a problem if you usually do in-source build so you may
> a) rename foo.conf to foo.conf.in in the source
> b) do
>    configure_file(foo.conf.in foo.conf COPYONLY)
>
>
>   

-- 
Regards,
-Clark