Is .. supported as PROPERTIES PREFIX ? Was: Re: [CMake] How to get rid of Debug / Release VisualStudio folders?

[Luigi Calori]

Following Joshua Jensen suggestion, in order to configure stuff, by 
setting prefix to ../ one seem to being able to direct placement of .dll 
without copying or installing.

I got some inconsistent behaviour between release and Debug build though 
when specifying:

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TargetName} PROPERTIES PREFIX "../../bin/lib")

Is this a not supported hack or is something one can count on?

Thanks in advance

Luigi

> Luigi Calori wrote:
>
>> Probably dumb question, but was not able to found hints on docs:
>> Visual Studio projects generated do append Debug / Release to the 
>> EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH and LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH paths.
>> Is there a way to avoid this and force them to generate straight 
>> inside EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH and LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH paths ?
>
> I use the following:
>
>    IF (CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
>        SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TargetName} PROPERTIES PREFIX "../")
>        SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TargetName} PROPERTIES DEBUG_POSTFIX 
> ".debug")
>    ENDIF(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
>
> It's not perfect, but it backs the executable out a directory.
>
> Josh
>
>