[CMake] Copying shared libraries in a post-build step

[Sergei Nikulov]

2014-12-10 13:29 GMT+03:00 Sergei Nikulov <sergey.nikulov at gmail.com>:

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> 2014-12-10 2:38 GMT+03:00 Walter Gray <chrysalisx at gmail.com>:
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>>  Hey all,
>> I'm working on a module that will allow me to automatically copy all the
>> required .dll files as defined by well-formed import library targets to the
>> appropriate location (same folder for windows, Frameworks folder for OSX
>> bundle, ect).  I've got the code that scans an executable's
>> INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES property recursively to find all such shared
>> library, however I'm running into a small problem.  I really like using
>> file globbing in higher level source directories to add all appropriate
>> sub-directories, but this means that sometimes a dependency will not be
>> fully defined yet. This is normally fine since these things are usually
>> resolved at *generation* time, but since I'm doing a manual traversal of
>> the list of link libraries at config time that's not really acceptable.  I
>> realize I could just not do the globbing and just make sure the directories
>> were setup in the correct order, but I really don't like making the
>> add_subdirectory calls order dependent.
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Sorry for  empty email.

Instead of globbing you can set single place for all project binary output

set(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/dist)

Or whatever other place instead of top project folder.


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Best Regards,
Sergei Nikulov
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