[CMake] clean custom_target

Steve Lorimer steve.lorimer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 09:57:45 EDT 2016


There is an open issue about just this.

If ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES doesn't work for you, you may want to make
your case on the issue

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/16358

On 26 October 2016 at 00:59, Petr Kmoch <petr.kmoch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tiago.
>
> The best I can think of is the directory property
> ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/
> latest/prop_dir/ADDITIONAL_MAKE_CLEAN_FILES.html
>
> You can set it to a list of files which will be removed as part of running
> `make clean` or its equivalent for other generators.
>
> Petr
>
> On 26 October 2016 at 04:36, Tiago Macarios <tiagomacarios at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to have a command to be run during a clean?
>>
>> I have a custom_target which does a fair bit of things and it also has
>> the ability to clean up after itself. So conceptually something like this
>> is what I am looking for:
>>
>> add_custom_target(Name ALL
>>     COMMAND command
>>     COMMAND_CLEAN command -clean
>> )
>>
>>
>> Tiago
>>
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