Hello,
I am also very intersted in this change. I usually put all my *.exe in
one folder, say "bin". For release version, with the name
$(ProjectName).exe, and Debug version $(ProjectName)-D.exe.
As far as I understand, this is not possible with the current version of
CMake.
Regards,
Olivier
Gerhard Gappmeier a écrit :
Hello,
I have a proposal to change the Visual Studio Generator.
The current version 2.4.8 works like this:
1.) CMake generates hardcoded paths for OutputFile, PDB File, Addition
Library Directories etc.
e.g.
OutputDirectory=Debug (or Release, etc. depending on the config)
OutputFile=D:\work\cmake-2.4.8\build\bin\Debug\cmake.exe
2.) OutputDirectory does not contain a directory, it's used like a
ConfigurationName.
Code Snippet (cmLocalVisualStudio7Generator.cxx):
0463 fout << "\t\t<Configuration\n"
0464 << "\t\t\tName=\"" << configName << "|" << this->PlatformName <<
"\"\n"
0465 << "\t\t\tOutputDirectory=\"" << configName << "\"\n";
3.) OutputFile contains a hardcoded path, that always contains the
configurationname (Debug|Release|...).
Code Snippet (cmLocalVisualStudio7Generator.cxx):
0882 temp = this->ExecutableOutputPath;
0883 temp += configName;
0884 temp += "/";
0885 temp += targetNameFull;
0886 fout << "\t\t\t\tOutputFile=\""
0887 << this->ConvertToXMLOutputPathSingle(temp.c_str()) << "\"\n";
The problem is that this hardcoded paths are very unflexible.
It should better use the macros that are used when you generate a
projects using the wizard.
My Proposal:
1.) Use the normal macros like its done by the wizard.
OutputDirectory=$(SolutionDir)$(ConfigurationName)
OutputFile=$(OutDir)\$(ProjectName).exe
Use this $(OutDir) also for pdb, manifest, etc.
This resolves to the same path as the hardcoded ones.
But you can easily change the output dir in the project by just
changing this single OutputDirectory,
that's what it was intended for.
2.) Using
SET(EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/mypath)
or
SET(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/mypath)
it should be possible to replace the default value of OutputDirectory.
This way you can easily change the output directory from
CMakeLists.txt and
it's not necassary to change it afterwards in the VS Project.
This way you can get rid of the autogenerated Debug/Release folders if
you don't want them,
but also keeps the current behaviour, or better the Visual Studio
default behavior
as long as you don't overwrite the output paths.
--
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Courage.
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