[CMake] Build and run an external project

[Eric Noulard]

Did you check whether if
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/include_external_msproject.html

wouldn't be better in your case?


Le mar. 4 déc. 2018 01:43, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> a écrit :

> I have an external project that I would like to compile using their build
> system, and be able to set the VS_COMMAND to the result of the project so I
> can run it.
>
>       add_custom_target(${cmake_target}
>         COMMAND make mytarget ${BUILD_ARGS}
>         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different
> ${PATH_TO_EXTERNAL}/mytarget.exe ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/$<CONFIG>
>         WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PATH_TO_EXTERNAL}
>         )
>       set_property( TARGET ${cmake_target} PROPERTY VS_DEBUGGER_COMMAND
> "${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/$<CONFIG>/mytarget.exe" )
>
> The VS_DEBUGGER_COMMAND works for targets such as add_executable, but not
> for add_custom_target.
>
> Is there a way to get what I want?
>
> Note that this is part of a larger CMake project that builds most of the
> other stuff using CMake, but I have a few external projects that I would
> like as part of the main solution.
>
> Thanks,
> James
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