[CMake] How To Copy Media Files Into Out-Of-Source Build

[Marcel Loose]

Hmm,

I'm a bit unfamiliar with Windows as a development platform. But I
thought that Redmond touted "shortcuts" as their version of "symbolic
links". Shortcuts exist since Windows 95.

Best regards,
Marcel Loose.

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:39 +0200, Michael Wild wrote:
> Windows Vista and newer do. On older versions create_symlink just does  
> nothing...
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 6. Jul, 2009, at 17:37, Karol Krizka wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you both for you suggestions. I think I will go with
> > execute_process and symlinks. Since the files are movies, they are  
> > quite
> > big and links are thus more efficient.
> >
> > Just a quick, side, off-topic question. Does Windows support symlinks?
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Karol Krizka
> >
> > On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 20:25 +0200, Michael Wild wrote:
> >> Or:
> >>
> >> configure_file( path/to/old_file ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/path/to/new_file
> >> COPYONLY )
> >>
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> On 5. Jul, 2009, at 17:27, Adolfo Rodríguez wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Karol Krizka <kkrizka at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi there,
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a generic way to have CMake copy (or link to) required  
> >>>> files
> >>>> (ei: movies) into an out-of-source build directory?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If symlinks work for you, you can do:
> >>>
> >>> execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink old new)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If what you really want to do is create a copy, you can change the
> >>> 'create_symlink' option with 'copy' (for individual files) or
> >>> 'copy_directory' (for entire directories). However, it looks like
> >>> for your
> >>> use case you can get away with symlinks, if your platform allows
> >>> them, that
> >>> is.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Adolfo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> When I build in an
> >>>> out-of-source directory, I would also like to test from the same
> >>>> directory without having to take any additional steps.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Karol Krizka
> >>>>
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