[CMake] Build and run an external project

[James Bigler]

Unfortunately I don't think your suggestion will work.

I need to invoke a custom executable to build my project and not a
msproject.  I also need to copy the executable into the build directory.


On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 9:55 PM Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you check whether if
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/include_external_msproject.html
>
> wouldn't be better in your case?
>
>
> Le mar. 4 déc. 2018 01:43, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> I have an external project that I would like to compile using their build
>> system, and be able to set the VS_COMMAND to the result of the project so I
>> can run it.
>>
>>       add_custom_target(${cmake_target}
>>         COMMAND make mytarget ${BUILD_ARGS}
>>         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different
>> ${PATH_TO_EXTERNAL}/mytarget.exe ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/$<CONFIG>
>>         WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PATH_TO_EXTERNAL}
>>         )
>>       set_property( TARGET ${cmake_target} PROPERTY VS_DEBUGGER_COMMAND
>> "${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/$<CONFIG>/mytarget.exe" )
>>
>> The VS_DEBUGGER_COMMAND works for targets such as add_executable, but not
>> for add_custom_target.
>>
>> Is there a way to get what I want?
>>
>> Note that this is part of a larger CMake project that builds most of the
>> other stuff using CMake, but I have a few external projects that I would
>> like as part of the main solution.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
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