[CMake] Output run-time files to single directory

[Michael Jackson]

# ---------- Setup output Directories -------------------------
SET (CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
   ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin )

# --------- Setup the Executable output Directory -------------
SET (CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
   ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin )

# --------- Setup the Executable output Directory -------------
SET (CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
   ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/Bin )


Put that in the top most CMakelists.txt file
_________________________________________________________
Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio

On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using CMake 2.6 on Linux and Windows.
> I'm migrating a not-so-big project from autotools to CMake,
> for both Linux (GCC) and Window (MSVC). The structure is simple:
>
> proj/
> proj/src - build as shared and static libs
> proj/app - executables linking to shared and static libs
>
> On Linux, everything works very well as expected
>
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ../proj
> make
>
> Libraries go to build/src and programs to build/app.
> I can go to build/app and run ./program and everything works well.
> No need to call ''make install', because:
>
> build/app$ ldd ./prog1
> libxxx.so => /home/mloskot/build/src/libxxx.so
>
>
> On Windows with Visual Studio it doesn't work that nice, of course.
> I get similar structure of build directory and files are scattered
> in similar way (+ Debug vs Release subdirectory).
>
> In order to run app/prog1 that needs to load src/xxx.dll, I need to  
> set
> PATH environment, of course.
>
> I would like to configure Visual Studio projects (using CMake of  
> course)
> to output all runtime elements (.exe and .dll) into common directory,
> for instance build/bin/debug and build/bin/release.
>
> I tried to fiddle about RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY property but I
> apparently don't know how to use it.
>
>
> Another and related question I have is about setting
> Debugging -> Environment property
> in Visual Studio project. It is file with user specific settings
> (*.vcproj.*.user file). By pointing all runtime dependencies using
> Environment and PATH, it is possible to run program inside Visual
> Studio. Simply, in many cases, I build and link my projects against
> various 3rd-party libraries from different locations and it is easier
> to set PATH in Visual Studio project settings than in the system-wide
> environment.
>
> So, I found this:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005901/how-to-set-path-environment-variable-using-cmake-and-visual-studio-to-run-test
>
> and I've managed (almost) to achieve what I need using the presented
> UserTemplate.vcproj trick. However, perhaps it is possible to achieve
> this using some nice features from CMake 2.6 or CMake 2.8 ?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
> Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
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