[CMake] Copying a cmake generated VisualStudio project file to another directory

[Antje Kühn]

Thank you for your answer!
Up to now I used qmake for building the Visual Studio project environment.
For every subprojct a  *.vcxproj was built and in the end a Visual Studio
solution of all the vcxproj files was created.
As I know there is no way in cmake to generate a VS "Solution", so my idea
was to "reuse" the "original" qmake file for building the solution.
For this I need all my vcxproj files at a specific place.

But now I have to look for another way....

Antje

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Petr Kmoch [mailto:petr.kmoch at gmail.com] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2012 16:46
An: Antje Kühn
Cc: cmake at cmake.org
Betreff: Re: [CMake] Copying a cmake generated VisualStudio project file to
another directory

Hi.

Custom commands are executed at build time (that is, when you do a build in
Visual Studio), not at generation time (when cmake is running). There is no
way to hook something to the end of the generation process itself (see
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13020 ).

BTW, it's generally a "Bad Idea (TM)" to move the generated tree around -
it's full of absolute paths. Why do you need to move it in the first place?

Petr



On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Antje Kühn <antje.kuehn at online.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
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> I'm using CMake 2.8.7 to generate VC++ 2010 project files on Windows 7.
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> At my CMakeLists.txt files I defined the following:
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> add_executable(VSData ${SRC} ${INC})
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> Target_link_libraries(VSData ${SOME_LIBS})
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> Now I start cmake from my build directory with:
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>>cmake -G "Visual Studio 10" ..
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> This works and  I get the *.vcxproj files in build/VSData.
>
> Now I want to copy the generated project files to another place at my 
> file system.
>
> For this I added the following command at the end to my CMakeLists.txt:
>
>
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> add_custom_command(TARGET VSData
>
>      POST_BUILD
>
>      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
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>      ARGS -E copy ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/VSData/VSData.vcxproj ${destDir}
> VERBATIM)
>
>
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> I also tried this:
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> add_custom_command(TARGET VSData.vcxproj
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>        POST_BUILD
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>        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
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>        ARGS -E copy $<TARGET_FILE: VSData.vcxproj> ${destDir} 
> VERBATIM)
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>
>
> But nothing happens! No error message, no warnings and the file will 
> not be copied!
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