[CMake] Batch converting several files

[Andy Lego]

Hi Martin,

When you add things to the custom target they will be executed in one
step. What you want are custom commands. Look at the manual for
add_custom_command.

Andy

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Martin Fischer <m_fischer at users.sf.net> wrote:
> On 11.03.2008 21:24 Andy Lego wrote:
>
>  Hi Andy,
>
>  so I tried the following
>
>  SET( SOURCEFILES
>       file1
>       file2
>       file3 )
>
>
>  FOREACH( FILE ${SOURCEFILES})
>         SET( EXECUTE
>              ${EXECUTE}
>              ${tool_EXE} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${FILE}.in
>  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${FILE}.out )
>  ENDFOREACH( FILE )
>
>
>  ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET( carfiles
>                    DEPENDS SOURCEFILES tool
>                    COMMAND ${EXECUTE}
>                   )
>
>  It looks like the variable EXCUTE is initialized as expected but is
>  considered as one command and not a sequence. Where am I going wrong?
>
>  Regards
>  Martin
>
>
>  > Hello Martin,
>  >
>  > You cannot nest commands and constructs. Move the FOREACH before the
>  > custom target and set a variable in it. Then use the result in the
>  > custom target.
>  >
>  > Andy
>  >
>
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Martin Fischer <m_fischer at users.sf.net> wrote:
>  >> > Hi,
>  >> >
>  >> >  for a project I'm working on I need to do the following build steps:
>  >> >
>  >> >  - compile an executable from source
>  >> >  - run this executable to convert several files
>  >> >  - for each input file in source directory there will be one output file
>  >> >  in build directory.
>  >> >
>  >> >  I tried several variants of he following but didn't come up with a good
>  >> >  solution.
>
>
>
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