[CMake] How to depend on files generated in a subdirectory?

[Attila Krasznahorkay]

Hi Zac,

Interesting. I was convinced that it wouldn't work with Ninja. But it does.

Thanks!
             Attila

> On 19 Nov 2015, at 00:23, Zac Bergquist <zbergquist99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Would this work?
> 
> add_dependencies(MergeFiles SubdirTarget)
> 
> On Nov 18, 2015 12:56 PM, "Attila Krasznahorkay" <attila.krasznahorkay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm trying to do something that may be very easy to implement, but I'm really struggling with it at the moment...
> 
> I have a project in which I generate various files in subdirectories. Which I add to the main project file using add_subdirectory(...). Some of these files I need to merge into a single file at the end of the build. For which I tried to set up a custom command in my main project file. But I can't convince this main project file to find out how to generate the files whose generation rule sits in a subdirectory.
> 
> Attached is a simple example of what I mean. In this example it is possible to execute the following commands successfully:
> 
> make SubdirTarget
> make
> 
> Since by the time the main target is built, its source files are already available. But if I try to just execute "make" first, I get:
> 
> Scanning dependencies of target MergeFiles
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `subdir/file3.txt', needed by `merged.txt'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/MergeFiles.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> I tried a number of different directory/file name combinations by now, but the problematic thing in the end seems to be that these files are generated in a different directory than where I try to use them.
> 
> Do you have a suggestion on how I could do something like this?
> 
> Cheers,
>             Attila
> 
> 
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