[CMake] Fwd: Eliminate Debug/Release directories and name executables based on configuration

[Ben Medina]

Sorry, meant to keep this on the list.

- Ben
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ben Medina <ben.medina at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CMake] Eliminate Debug/Release directories and name
executables based on configuration
To: James Ihrig <jeihrig at gmail.com>


I believe this is what the DEBUG_POSTFIX property is for:

set_target_properties (demo PROPERTIES DEBUG_POSTFIX _d)

- Ben

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM, James Ihrig <jeihrig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using CMake for Visual Studio as well as Makefiles for Linux. In
> windows, debug and release directories seem to be added for the executables.
> I actually would like to do three things:
> 1) Test for a debug or release build
> 2) Name the executable created based on it's build. (myProgram_d.exe for
> debug, myProgram.exe for release.)
> 3) Place the output executables into the bin directory without debug and
> release directories.
> I have not found a way to test for the build type but I have tried these
> together, and in various combinations:
> set(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/../Demo/bin)
> set(RUNTIME_OUTPUT_BINARY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/../Demo/bin)
> set(RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_DEBUG ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/../Demo/bin)
> set(RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELEASE ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/../Demo/bin)
> set(RUNTIME_OUTPUT_NAME_DEBUG demo_d.exe)
> set(RUNTIME_OUTPUT_NAME_RELEASE demo.exe)
> The closest I can come are these executables:
> Demo\bin\Debug\helloDemo.exe
> Demo\bin\Release\helloDemo.exe
> What I want is:
> Demo\bin\demo_d.exe
> Demo\bin\demo.exe
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> -Jim
>
> P.S.
> For anyone curious what my main CMakeLists.txt looks like, here it is:
> http://codepad.org/Yuev7TWJ
>
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