[CMake] Per configuration ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND

[Ludovic Hoyet]

That's perfect, TARGET_LINKER_FILE exactly did the job

Thanks a million

Ludo

2011/11/9 David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>

> There are also generator expressions for TARGET_LINKER_FILE and
> TARGET_SONAME_FILE -- have you tried those? I think when the target is
> a .dll, the TARGET_LINKER_FILE expression yields the name of the
> corresponding .lib file...
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Ludovic Hoyet <lhoyet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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