[CMake] Current binary directory confusion

[J Decker]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're totally confused. I'm not looking to work around a problem, I just
> want information from CMake that I know it has. Somewhere it knows exactly
> where binaries will be placed (those binaries that get compiled) because it
> has to generate the scripts and visual studio projects with those paths
> inside.
>
> CMake is generating resource files that must be placed in these directories
> and are later included in the targets to be compiled, so I need to know this
> directory so that no matter what generator I'm using, the resource file will
> always be copied to the proper location.
>

that's didn't help a lot :)   what sort of resource files do you mean?
 Watcom .rc handling isn't great for instance, and I have custom rules
to generate the .res output, but then I just specify that output.

>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > So how do I get the absolute path to this directory in a portable
>> > (between
>> > generators) way?
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Well, what is it you want from there?  I generate INSTALL commands to
>> put the outputs where I want them and let them worry about where the
>> files are?
>>
>> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:03 AM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Robert Dailey
>> >> <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} returns a directory that contains
>> >> > generated
>> >> > files, such as vcproj files when generating for visual studio.
>> >> > However,
>> >> > actual compiled binaries are placed:
>> >> >
>> >> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${target_name}.dir/Debug (for debug
>> >> > configuration)
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there a variable or target property that will give me the
>> >> > following
>> >> > path
>> >> > for any target:
>> >> >
>> >> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${target_name}.dir
>> >> >
>> >> > (I don't care about debug/release being part of the path, I just want
>> >> > the
>> >> > "target.dir" part to be included in the path. Right now I'm
>> >> > hard-coding
>> >> > the
>> >> > ".dir" directory and appending it to my path, but I don't know if
>> >> > this
>> >> > naming scheme is guaranteed by CMake or if it will change in the
>> >> > future.
>> >> >
>> >> it differs from generator to generator
>> >>
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