[CMake] Get configuration-dependant LOCATION property

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Sun Oct 3 17:53:45 EDT 2010


On 03/10/10 22:27, J Decker wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I understand what the manual [1] says about LOCATION property that it is
>> more or less deprecated. Is that right?
>>
>> I'm building software (shared libraries and executables) on both, Linux
>> and Windows (using VS 2005, 2008, 2010) and I'm trying to find out what
>> would be portable way to get target output location. It is location of
>> output directory where toolset genreates .so or .dll files.
>>
>> I tried LOCATION property but it is empty (on Windows at least)
>>
>> get_target_property(MY_TARGET_LOCATION ${MY_TARGET} LOCATION)
> 
>  get_target_property(MY_TARGET_LOCATION ${MY_TARGET}
> LOCATION_${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)) ?

It does not help.

As I mentioned in my original post, ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} is empty
when you generate Visual Studio projects.

Best regards,
-- 
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