[CMake] How To Copy Media Files Into Out-Of-Source Build

[Michael Wild]

Windows Vista and newer do. On older versions create_symlink just does  
nothing...

Michael

On 6. Jul, 2009, at 17:37, Karol Krizka wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you both for you suggestions. I think I will go with
> execute_process and symlinks. Since the files are movies, they are  
> quite
> big and links are thus more efficient.
>
> Just a quick, side, off-topic question. Does Windows support symlinks?
> --
> Cheers,
> Karol Krizka
>
> On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 20:25 +0200, Michael Wild wrote:
>> Or:
>>
>> configure_file( path/to/old_file ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/path/to/new_file
>> COPYONLY )
>>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On 5. Jul, 2009, at 17:27, Adolfo Rodríguez wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Karol Krizka <kkrizka at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a generic way to have CMake copy (or link to) required  
>>>> files
>>>> (ei: movies) into an out-of-source build directory?
>>>
>>>
>>> If symlinks work for you, you can do:
>>>
>>> execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink old new)
>>>
>>>
>>> If what you really want to do is create a copy, you can change the
>>> 'create_symlink' option with 'copy' (for individual files) or
>>> 'copy_directory' (for entire directories). However, it looks like
>>> for your
>>> use case you can get away with symlinks, if your platform allows
>>> them, that
>>> is.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Adolfo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> When I build in an
>>>> out-of-source directory, I would also like to test from the same
>>>> directory without having to take any additional steps.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Karol Krizka
>>>>
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