[CMake] Per configuration ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND

[Ludovic Hoyet]

I just tried it (maybe I did something wrong) but it does not work:

ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND
${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy $<TARGET_FILE:${MY_PROJECT }> ${EXTERNAL_DIR}
VERBATIM)
ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND
${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy $<TARGET_FILE:${MY_PROJECT }>.lib ${EXTERNAL_DIR}
VERBATIM)

The first line copy the dll, no pb with this it was already working. The
second line try to copy project_d.dll.lib for Debug and project.dll.lib for
Release

How can I access the name of the output file without the extension?

2011/11/9 Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de>

> > Hi,
> >
> > I have different projects that generate a .lib and a .dll file, and I
> > would
> > like to copy these 2 files in a given directory as a post-build event. My
> > main problem is that my debug libraries are post-fixed with _d, which
> > require that I use the following code:
> >
> > SET(MY_PROJECT project)
> > ADD_LIBRARY(${MY_PROJECT } SHARED ${HDRS} ${SOURCES} ... )
> > [...]
> > ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND
> > ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy $<TARGET_FILE:${MY_PROJECT }> ${EXTERNAL_DIR}
> > VERBATIM)
> > ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND
> > ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH}/debug/${MY_PROJECT
> }_d.lib
> > ${EXTERNAL_DIR}/${MY_PROJECT }_d.lib VERBATIM)
> > ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND
> > ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH}/release/${MY_PROJECT
> }.lib
> > ${EXTERNAL_DIR}/${MY_PROJECT }.lib VERBATIM)
> >
> > The main problem is that the tool crash when I compile it the first time.
> > For instance if I start to compile in Release the _d.lib file does not
> > exist and it does not even process to copying the release .lib. Ok, it
> > works if I compile it in the right order, but I would prefer to have a
> > clean code for this.
> >
> > I have been looking at using
> > INSTALL(TARGETS ${MY_PROJECT} DESTINATION ${EXTERNAL_DIR} COMPONENT
> > Libraries)
> > but it creates a separate install vcproj that runs after all my projects,
> > and I need my libraries copied right after the compilation as other
> > projects depend on these output. So this is not a solution for me.
> >
> > So I tryied to have a look at per configuration ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND. I
> >  found different discussion about this problem, but I don't manage to
> make
> > it work:
> > http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9974
> > http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11209
> >
> > The first one provide a patch, but I don't manage to get it working with
> > cmake. Is there a special way to include these "patches" to our
> > configurations?
>
> Use generator expressions to get the name of the generated files.
>
> Eike
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Ludovic Hoyet
Research Fellow,
Graphics Vision and Visualisation group,
Trinity College Dublin
http://www.scss.tcd.ie/~hoyetl/
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