[CMake] make_directory deprecated. What's the correct solution to generate directories at build time now?

[Paulo Waelkens]

You are right!

The documentation quick search for the "make_directory" keyword does not
find the cmake executable documentation (i.e. the make_directory
command-line tool), only the script command. That tripped me up.
If you manually go to the cmake executable documentation (
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.6/manual/cmake.1.html), you'll find that
"cmake.exe -E make_directory..." is indeed still up to date

Thanks Iosif! Cheers,
Paulo

On 12 October 2016 at 00:57, iosif neitzke <iosif.neitzke+cmake at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think only the cmake script command make_directory is deprecated, not
> the cmake command-line tool -E mode make_directory?
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Paulo Waelkens
> <paulo.waelkens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > to create a cmake directory at build time
> > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3702115/creating-a-
> directory-in-cmake)
> > you could use
> >
> > add_custom_target(build-time-make-directory ALL
> >     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${directory})
> >
> > "make_directory" is now listed as deprecated in the new cmake
> documentation
> > (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.6/command/make_directory.html).
> >
> > How exactly could I repeat the original behaviour without using
> deprecated
> > functionality?
> > I understand that I'm supposed to use file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${directory})
> > somehow, but don't understand how exactly to connect this with COMMAND.
> >
> > I've tried to use
> > COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E file ...       (definitely wrong, because
> > cmake.exe -E <command> [args...] does not list "file" as an available
> > command)
> > COMMAND file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${directory})   (wrong, again, 'file' is not
> > recognized as an internal or external command)
> >
> > Does anyone know how to do this right? I'll keep using the deprecated
> stuff
> > for now, but that's kind of sad.
> >
> > Thanks for the help! Cheers,
> > Paulo
> >
> >
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