[CMake] Possible bug: <config>_OUTPUT_NAME not used as target property LOCATION

[Laurentiu Nicolae]

Hi cmake hackers,

My project requires the generation of DLLs and executables with
different postfixes for different configurations. Therefore I am setting
the <config_OUTPUT_NAME accordingly. However, when I try to add a
post-build step to the build (as described in the manual), the LOCATION
property of the target is set to the original generated name, regardless
of the configuration. I can of course work around this by setting the
prefixes by hand in the post-build command, but I believe this to be a
bug. The reason being: if I am using the <config>_OUTPUT_NAME options,
the LOCATION property becomes rather useless, because it points to
something that may not be there any more.

CMakeLists.txt excerpt:

    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES ( ${ProjectName} PROPERTIES DEBUG_OUTPUT_NAME
         "${ProjectName}D" )
    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES ( ${ProjectName} PROPERTIES
RELWITHDEBINFO_OUTPUT_NAME "${ProjectName}Q" )
    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES ( ${ProjectName} PROPERTIES
RELEASE_OUTPUT_NAME        "${ProjectName}R" )


  GET_TARGET_PROPERTY ( DllLocation "${ProjectName}" LOCATION )
  ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND ( TARGET "${ProjectName}"
                       POST_BUILD
                       COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
                       ARGS -E copy "${DllLocation}" "${QOutputPath}"
                     )


Cheers,
Laurentiu

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Laurentiu Nicolae
Senior Software Engineer
Quintiq

Tel: +31 (0)73 691 07 39
Fax: +31 (0)73 691 07 54
Laurentiu.Nicolae at quintiq.com 
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