[CMake] Need suggestion on copying DLLs

[Michael Jackson]

I have something like that and gave up and just let VS copy both the release and debug into their proper directories. I'm interested in a better solution.

Just my 2 cents.
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Mike Jackson                    Principal Software Engineer
BlueQuartz Software                            Dayton, Ohio
mike.jackson at bluequartz.net              www.bluequartz.net

On Nov 1, 2012, at 6:58 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:

> I have a central repository of third party libraries, each containing
> its own set of DLLs for debug and release. I have created a custom
> target that will copy all third party DLLs for debug to the same
> output directory that Visual Studio will place compiled DLLs and EXEs
> (I also have a second custom target for third party release DLLs).
> 
> I want to setup my CMake scripts to setup each executable target to
> depend on this custom target to copy DLLs over. The only problem is
> that I don't know how to set it up per-configuration. When I build
> debug versions of my executable targets in Visual Studio, it should
> copy only the debug third party DLLs (currently it would have to know
> to run the copy_dlls_debug target and not the copy_dlls_release
> target).
> 
> I've thought of maybe using a post-build event, but then I'd have to
> put the copy operation in multiple executable targets, which would be
> more work than necessary (I only need to run the copy operation once
> per solution).
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can set this up? I'm open to
> setting this up from scratch again if I have to.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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