[CMake] Get configuration-dependant LOCATION property

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 04/10/10 05:40, Michael Wild wrote:
>
> On 3. Oct, 2010, at 23:53 , Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
>> On 03/10/10 22:27, J Decker wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Mateusz
>>> Loskot<mateusz at loskot.net>  wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I understand what the manual [1] says about LOCATION property
>>>> that it is more or less deprecated. Is that right?
>>>>
>>>> I'm building software (shared libraries and executables) on
>>>> both, Linux and Windows (using VS 2005, 2008, 2010) and I'm
>>>> trying to find out what would be portable way to get target
>>>> output location. It is location of output directory where
>>>> toolset genreates .so or .dll files.
>>>>
>>>> I tried LOCATION property but it is empty (on Windows at
>>>> least)
>>>>
>>>> get_target_property(MY_TARGET_LOCATION ${MY_TARGET} LOCATION)
>>>
>>> get_target_property(MY_TARGET_LOCATION ${MY_TARGET}
>>> LOCATION_${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)) ?
>>
>> It does not help.
>>
>> As I mentioned in my original post, ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} is empty
>> when you generate Visual Studio projects.
>
>
> I didn't look into the specifics of your problem, but would it be a
> solution to configure _all_ locations into a CMake script which
> performs your required action at build/test time?

I haven't mention that. I try to keep default CMake build tree
layout. Regardless how simple changes it would require, IMHO,
messing with *_OUTPUT properties overrides portability
provided by CMake out of the box and would require manual
handling.

I define target for CMake and CMake knows where to output files.
Now, simply, I would like to ask "Dear CMake, tell me please where do 
you send my binaries".

Can I do it? How?

 > You could pass the configuration type as a -D parameter.

I could pass CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, but this would be available once
when configuration is performed. Then, form Visual Studio IDE
user can change configuration which CMake settings will not be aware of.

Best regards,
-- 
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