Your initial attempt looks reasonable... Did you try it without the "VERBATIM" argument to the ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND?
This sort of copy command should work if invoked from Visual Studio, even with the $(OutDir) reference... HTH, David On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Pečiva Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dears cmakers, > > I am about to finish my "dual gui/console" behaviour for InventorTools > utilities. Compilation of whole set of executables is perfectly handled by > cmake, but final "installation" procedure does not work. > > Can cmake handle this situation?: > > 1. cmake builds all the executables of the projects > "Dual" behaviour requires .com suffix, so all *.com are placed in > the build directories. On MSVC, it is usually at > build/(project_name)/(debug|release)/*.com > This works perfectly. > > 2. The last project makes one .exe for "dual" behaviour. It is called > autoconsole.exe. Before using cmake, I copied autoconsole.exe to all > other > build directories to reside together with their .com and renamed them to > the same name as .com except with .exe suffix. This worked perfectly > using > post-build script, but how to make it with cmake? > > I unsuccessfully tried two options: > > - to make post-build step by > > add_custom_command (TARGET autoconsole > POST_BUILD > COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy > ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/autoconsole.exe > ${ivview_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/ivview.exe > COMMENT "Copying executables..." VERBATIM) > > This does not work because ${CMAKE_CFG_INITDIR} is set to $(IntDir) on > Visual Studio. So, the copy command fails because it expect regular path. > (And $(IntDir) differs among different debug/release configurations). > > - to make it part of install process by > > install (TARGETS autoconsole > RUNTIME > DESTINATION bin > RENAME ivview.exe) > > It copies the file, but RENAME does not work (It probably works only for > PROGRAMS and FILES signatures). I was planning to use this command about ten > times to get all the required .exe. > > > Please, is there any way how to proceed, to get all of about ten .exe > executables to their places, either with their .com counterparts > (preferred), or to final install destination? > > Thanks, > John > > _______________________________________________ > CMake mailing list > CMake@cmake.org > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >
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