[CMake] How to get target binary name?

[David Cole]

Yes, with:

  http://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.8/cmake.html#prop_tgt:LOCATION
    or
  http://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.8/cmake.html#prop_tgt:LOCATION_CONFIGfor
per-config values

and:


http://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.8/cmake.html#command:get_filename_component


HTH,
David


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> If I were to try to do this *after* calling add_executable() or
> add_library(), would it be easier to obtain?
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> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Thompson, K T <kgt at lanl.gov> wrote:
>
>>  Robert,****
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>> I’m not sure this is exactly what you are looking for, but you may be
>> able to use “generator expressions.”  See the documentation for
>> add_custom_command for more details, but basically you can use the
>> expression $<TARGET_FILE:foo> to retrieve the executable name generated by
>> target ‘foo’.  I think this only works after you use add_executable( foo
>> ${src} ).****
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>> -kt****
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>> *From:* cmake-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Robert Dailey
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:41 AM
>> *To:* CMake ML
>> *Subject:* Re: [CMake] How to get target binary name?****
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>> Another note: This has to work the same for both release and debug, and
>> for both visual studio and makefile generators.****
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>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com>
>> wrote:****
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>> I'm looking for the quickest and most natural way to get the final binary
>> name of a target, ideally before add_executable() or add_library() is
>> called (not sure if this is possible).****
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>> For example, if my executable target's output is fubar.exe, I want to get
>> "fubar.exe" in a variable.****
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>> Any examples? Thanks.****
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