Hi, > I'm trying to grab the cl.exe banner so I can determine the > MSVC version number. If cl.exe is in the path, then the > following works at a Windows Command Prompt. This gives a > short banner with the VC version number and copyright. > > cl /? 2> banner.txt > > But when I try to do it in a custom command, I can't get it > to pipe to a file. I see the output go by in the Visual > Studio output window, with 1> prefixed in front of all the > lines, and it is saved in BuildLog.htm, but cbanner.txt has 0 > length no matter whether I use > > 1> 2> as the pipe. Does MSVC simply not have a notion of piping or > something? Do I have to do something MSVC-specific to > capture the output or the error? > > IF(MSVC) > ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND( > OUTPUT ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/cbanner.txt > WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} > COMMAND ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER} /? 2> cbanner.txt > ) > ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(cbanner ALL > DEPENDS ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/cbanner.txt > ) > ENDIF(MSVC)
Had a similar problem during generating a file with >> or with >. Then I used VERBATIM and it worked. Maybe this will help here too. Greetings Alexander ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: This e-mail may contain confidential information intended solely for the addressee. If you have received this e-mail in error, please do not disclose it to anyone, notify the sender promptly, and delete the message from your system. Thank you.
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