[CMake] Use of ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND

[Gib Bogle]

It worked!  Brilliant!  Thanks very much.  I have a lot to learn ...

Gib

Quoting Fraser Hutchison <fraser.hutchison at googlemail.com>:

> 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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