[CMake] Generated .rc files silently ignored

[Jakob van Bethlehem]

Hej,

Some more information about how you setup things would be useful. For instance: you would need to add the filename of the generated .rc file to the executable/library for which it is generated: are you doing that?

In the application I currently work on, we have created a small function to wrap the generation of the .rc file. I just checked that we actually also build a full path. That actually makes sense, because the generated file is put in the ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} and *not* in the current source dir. In other words: we could never accomplish this with any type of ‘relative’ path anyway. Are you maybe also mixing up the *SOURCE_DIR and *BINARY_DIR?

Sincerely,
Jakob

> On 07 Sep 2015, at 13:08, Mueller-Roemer, Johannes Sebastian <Johannes.Sebastian.Mueller-Roemer at igd.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
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> While adding versioning info to a  .dll I noticed that .rc files that are generated (via configure_file) are silently being ignored. Adding them via an absolute path works, but using a relative leads to it being ignored.
>  
> Is this a bug or is this by design? At the very least just silently ignoring it seems wrong.
>  
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