[CMake] WORKING_DIRECTORY ignored for ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND on Visual Studio?

[Martin Apel]

Hi Bill

I simply do the following:

ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(OUTPUT ${FSrcWithBinDir} 
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/accessor_protos.h
                   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different 
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/FortranModules.inp  
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/FortranModules.inp
                   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different 
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/FortranCommons.inp  
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/FortranCommons.inp
                   COMMAND ${PERL_EXECUTABLE} 
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/createFortAccessors.pl
                   DEPENDS 
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/createFortAccessors.pl FortranModules.inp 
FortranCommons.inp ${ModuleDefs} ${CommonDefs}
                   WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
                   )

This calls a perl script to generate a bunch of Fortran files as needed. 
This script has to run in the output directory. I have checked the 
generated .vcproj file and it doesn't contain anything related to
the working directory for this command. I modified the command to use
                   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E chdir ${PERL_EXECUTABLE} 
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/createFortAccessors.pl
and now it works properly. But still, my impression is, that the Visual 
Studio generator ignores this parameter.

Regards,

Martin


Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Martin Apel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I got the impression, that the CMake generator for Visual Studio 7 
>> ignores the working directory set in ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND. Is this a 
>> bug or is this a documented feature somehow?
>> Or am I simply doing something wrong?
>>
> Might be a bug, might be you.  Please provide a small example that 
> shows the problem.
>
> -Bill
>


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