[CMake] Copying of 3rd party DLLs in a POST-BUILD step

[Michael Jackson]

I am VERY interested in how you did this. Did you have CMake write a file for you? Do you have some code to share by any chance? 

Thanks
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Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Ben Medina wrote:

> I'd guess the performance of fixup_bundle will be a big pitfall if
> you're planning on doing this after every build.
> 
> An entirely different approach is to configure a Visual Studio .user
> file to set the PATH environment variable (not setting it globally;
> just for debugging your app from within VS). You still have to track
> which directories to add to the PATH, but this approach has worked
> flawlessly for us (across multiple versions of VS, as well as 32- and
> 64-bit configs).
> 
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:41 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>> 2012/1/9 Hauke Heibel <hauke.heibel at googlemail.com>:
>>> 2012/1/9 Michael Stürmer <m.stuermer at pmdtec.com>:
>>>> Awesome! Sometimes you just need to know what's already available to solve your problems in a very elegant way. I'll have a look at these bundles and probably switch to them instead of maintaining my own stuff!
>>> 
>>> When looking at the initial problem, I am pretty much convinced that
>>> you need a combination of your own script and GetPrerequisites since
>>> you want to copy to your run-time output directory - and there to
>>> specific sub-directories depending on the build type.
>>> 
>>> It may well be that I have overseen some functionality in those new modules ...
>>> 
>>> - Hauke
>> 
>> BundleUtilities, on Windows, should copy dlls to be in the same
>> directory as the executable being analyzed... So, as long as the exe
>> is in the right directory when fixup_bundle is called on it, then the
>> dlls will get copied into that same directory.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David
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