SPAM-LOW: RE: SPAM-LOW: RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: [CMake] Renaming output of EXECUTABLE

[Reggie Burnett]

This sounds like what I want.  I'll try it and report back.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William A. Hoffman [mailto:billlist at nycap.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:19 PM
> To: Reggie Burnett; darko at uvcms.com
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: SPAM-LOW: RE: SPAM-LOW: RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: [CMake] Renaming output
> of EXECUTABLE
> 
> At 01:05 PM 12/1/2005, Reggie Burnett wrote:
> >Bill
> >
> >I guess I was confused.  I thought that with Cmake acting as a sort of
> >preprocessor, I can get it to output what I needed.  Sort of like this
> (in
> >pseudo cmake )
> >
> >IF BUILDA
> >   SET (EXENAME, "myprog-a")
> >ELSE
> >   SET (EXENAME, "myprog-b")
> >ENDIF
> >
> >ADD_EXECUTABLE(EXENAME, SRCS)
> >
> >I thought that when cmake ran, if BUILDA was true in the props that my
> >visual projects that were generated would have a project named myprog-a.
> If
> >it was not true, then the project would be named myprog-b. Is this not
> so?
> 
> This is true, but the problem is that when cmake is run on a project, you
> get a .vcproj file with multiple build configurations.  So, given your
> example,
> if you run cmake and BUILDA is set you would get this file:
> 
> myprog-a.vcproj
> 
> It would produce an executable called myprog-a.
> However, it would have configurations called Release and Debug inside it,
> that would be able to build a release or debug version of myprog-a.
> 
> -Bill