[Cmake] VC++ 7.1 Post Build Problem

[Brad King]

Marco Spatz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are currently using cmake 1.8.3 and VS 7.0 to build our system, but 
> we are going to switch to cmake 2.0.3 and VC++ 7.1. I am the first one 
> to take that step, and cmake 2.0.3 now works fine, but I still got 
> problems with my new VC++ 7.1. After the build, we want to copy the 
> needed dlls into the directory the binary's in. Therefore we use the 
> code below to generate a post build command in VC++.
[snip]
> With VS 7.0 this works fine, but VC++ 7.1 complains about the post 
> build. After "playing around" I found the reason why: VS 7.0 has no 
> problems with multiple command line instructions, but VC++ 7.1 wants 
> them to be in one command line (I tried this by hand and it worked). But 
> I don't know how to tell cmake to put them all into one line? Or is this 
> a VC++ 7.1 bug?

I suspect it is a change in the VC project file format for which CMake 
does not account.  We will have to investigate further but may not get 
to it for a while.  Please submit it as a bug report here:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug

Thanks,
-Brad