<span id="mailbox-conversation"><div>add_custom_command is rather used for operations performed during build phase (which is completely separate off packaging)</div>

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<div>You could create hgHash.txt during packaging by using install(SCRIPT) command:</div>

<div>install(SCRIPT hgHash.cmake)</div>

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<div>install(</div>

<div>  FILES hgHash.txt</div>

<div>  DESTINATION yourapp</div>

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<div>Hypothetical hgHash.cmake would be quite straightforward:</div>

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<div>message(STATUS "Getting hg hash")</div>

<div>execute_process(</div>

<div>  COMMAND hg --debug id -i</div>

<div>  OUTPUT_FILE hgHash.txt</div>

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<div id="mb-reply"><div>That would create hgHash.txt unconditionally during each cpack/make install/cmake -P cmake_install.cmake invocation</div></div>

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<div id="mb-reply">-Roman</div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Shyrokov, Sasha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Sasha-Shyrokov@idexx.com" target="_blank">Sasha-Shyrokov@idexx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><p>Hi,

<br><br>I would like to include a generated file into a package. I have something like that:

<br>include(CPack)

<br><br>add_custom_command (OUTPUT hgHash.txt

<br>    COMMAND hg --debug id -i >hgHash.txt

<br>    COMMENT "Getting hg hash")

<br><br>add_custom_target (hg_hash

<br>    DEPENDS hgHash.txt

<br>    COMMENT "hg_hash target")

<br><br>Now the following would solve my problems, but it does not work:

<br>add_dependencies(package hg_hash)

<br><br>I get:

Cannot add target-level dependencies to non-existent target "package".

I know I have CPack configured properly, because if I create the file manually it gets included. I also can add the dependency on one of my libraries, but I only want to generate this file when package is executed.

What am I missing?

<br><br>Thanks,

<br>Sasha

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