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

[Petr Kmoch]

In that case, cmake should already be generating this for you, from
your toplevel CMakeLists.txt file.

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Antje Kühn <antje.kuehn at online.de> wrote:
> No, I need one "main" solution that bundles all the other "subprojects".
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Petr Kmoch [mailto:petr.kmoch at gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2012 17:19
> An: Antje Kühn
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Betreff: Re: [CMake] Copying a cmake generated VisualStudio project file to
> another directory
>
> For every "project()" command in CMakeLists, cmake generates one .sln file
> (in addition to one .vcproj for each target added). Do you need any extra
> solutions?
>
> Petr
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Antje Kühn <antje.kuehn at online.de> wrote:
>> 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,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using CMake 2.8.7 to generate VC++ 2010 project files on Windows 7.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At my CMakeLists.txt files I defined the following:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> add_executable(VSData ${SRC} ${INC})
>>>
>>> Target_link_libraries(VSData ${SOME_LIBS})
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Now I start cmake from my build directory with:
>>>
>>>>cmake -G "Visual Studio 10" ..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> add_custom_command(TARGET VSData
>>>
>>>      POST_BUILD
>>>
>>>      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
>>>
>>>      ARGS -E copy ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/VSData/VSData.vcxproj
>>> ${destDir}
>>> VERBATIM)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I also tried this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> add_custom_command(TARGET VSData.vcxproj
>>>
>>>        POST_BUILD
>>>
>>>        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
>>>
>>>        ARGS -E copy $<TARGET_FILE: VSData.vcxproj> ${destDir}
>>> VERBATIM)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But nothing happens! No error message, no warnings and the file will
>>> not be copied!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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