[CMake] Cannot find source file: *.rc

[Aaron_Wright at selinc.com]

> From: Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com>
> To: cmake at cmake.org
> Date: 05/25/2011 10:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Cannot find source file: *.rc
> Sent by: cmake-bounces at cmake.org
> 
> On 05/25/2011 11:40 PM, Aaron_Wright at selinc.com wrote:
> > I use mc.exe to generate an *.rc file and some headers for my program.
> > The *.rc file is listed as an output of a custom command and as a 
source
> > to an executable. During configuration CMake tells me it can't find a
> > source file and lists the *.rc file. I've check the generated property
> > of the *.rc file and it is true, so why does CMake expect it to be
> > present during configuration?
> > 
> > I've tried to make a small example, but when I try to do that 
everything
> > works. What I'm looking for is a reason why it would only effect large
> > build systems on not small build system, or why does this only effect
> > this *.rc and none of the other twenty or thirty files I generate? Is
> > there something special about *.rc files?
> > 
> > I'm really just grabbing at straws here because I've been trying to 
fix
> > this for months, with no luck. So any ideas are welcome.
> > 
> > ---
> > Aaron Wright
> 
> Is the add_custom_command call generating the *.rc file in the same
> directory as your add_executable call?
> 
> Michael

It is neither in the same CMakeLists.txt nor is the *.rc file generated 
anywhere close to the executable.

I did work around this by writing a dummy file at configure time with 
FILE(WRITE. Thought that seems a little hacky.
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