[CMake] RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_<CONFIG> has no effect

[David Cole]

set_property(GLOBAL requires CMake 2.8 or later.


On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Martin Magnusson <martin at eyra.se> wrote:

> 2011-01-07 12:07, Nizar Khalifa Sallem skrev:
> > At Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:11:18 +0100,
> > Martin Magnusson wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm having trouble setting the runtime output directory, especially with
> >> multiple configurations.
> >>
> >> I'm using CMake 2.8 on Ubuntu 10.04, with gcc.
> >>
> >> My current root CMakeLists.txt contains
> >> SET( EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bin )
> >> which works, although the EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH is deprecated.
> >>
> >> If I read the documentation correctly, the proper way of setting the
> >> output directory now would be
> >> SET_PROPERTY( GLOBAL PROPERTY
> >>   RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bin
> >> )
> >> but that doesn't work for me. With that setting, the binary is produced
> >> in the source directory, just as if I hadn't specified an output
> >> directory at all.
> > Hi,
> > Actually you can do something like this:
> > set_property(GLOBAL TARGET target1, target2, ...
> > PROPERTY RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_RELWITHDEBINFO
> > ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/bin/relwithdebinfo)
>
> I tried that just now, but then CMake exits with the message
>
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:8 (SET_PROPERTY):
>  set_property given names for GLOBAL scope.
>
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