[CMake] Use of ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND

[Fraser Hutchison]

Hi Gib,

Try the following:

GET_TARGET_PROPERTY(FUBAR_EXE fubar LOCATION)
ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET fubar POST_BUILD COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E 
copy ${FUBAR_EXE} somepath)

Cheers,

Fraser.



On 20/04/2011 03:31, Gib Bogle wrote:
> I'm a real cmake novice, and I find the cmake documentation hard to 
> follow, because it assumes that you know what you're doing (and I 
> obviously don't) and doesn't provide examples.  I simply want to add 
> to CMakeLists.txt an instruction to copy the executable created to 
> another directory.  I gather that I want to use ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND, 
> and naively I thought this might do it:
>
> ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND( TARGET fubar POST_BUILD COMMAND copy fubar.exe 
> somepath/fubar.exe)
>
> but although this doesn't trigger a cmake error, it doesn't do 
> anything either, and doesn't even seem to change Makefile.  Can 
> someone point me in the right direction?  I'm using MinGW tools on 
> Windows.
>
> Thanks
> Gib
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