[CMake] Force copy of files

Aaron Boxer boxerab at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 13:47:51 EDT 2016


Never mind, figured this one out:

use copy_if_different

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Aaron Boxer <boxerab at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have the following lines in my cmake file
>
>
> foreach(f ${MyFiles})
>   add_custom_command(TARGET ${OPENJPEG_PLUGIN_NAME} PRE_BUILD
>                      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E
>                          copy ${f} $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:${MY_FOLDER}>)
> endforeach()
>
> in order to copy MyFiles to MyFolder.
>
>
> If these files already exist, I would like copy to overwrite the old file.
> Is there a flag to pass to copy to force this to overwrite?
>
> Thanks!
> Aaron
>
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