[CMake] configuration based add_custom_command

[Robert Bielik]

Michael Wild skrev 2011-08-23 11:29:
> The easiest way around this I can see is to wrap the command in a
> CMake-script like this:
>
> add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/someFile.txt
>    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
>      -DCONFIG=$<CONFIGURATION>
>      -DOUTPUT=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/someFile.txt
>      -P ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/generateSomeFile.cmake
>    DEPENDS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/generateSomeFile.cmake
>    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
>    COMMENT "Generating someFile.txt"
>    VERBATIM)
>
>
> And then, inside the generateSomeFile.cmake wrapper file you do:
>
> if(CONFIG STREQUAL Release)
>    execute_process(COMMAND ...)
> endif()
>
>
> HTH

Ooh... I'll try it, but I don't understand it, yet :)

Feature request: A CONFIGURATION option to add_custom_command:

ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
...
    CONFIGURATION Release
...
)

would make life so much easier.

Regards,
/Rob