Hi!
Is it possible to define the current working directory of a command line
tool
that is built with cmake? since the build is usually out-of-source I have
to set the current working directory in the ide, e.g visual studio or
xcode. more convenient would be to set it in cmake.
Do you mean in add_custom_command()/add_custom_target() ?
Both have an optional WORKING_DIRECTORY argument.
no, i mean add_executable. when I build and start the directory I'd like to set
the
working directory that the executable is started in.
-Jochen
I think that you have a misconception with respect to the concept of "working
directory".
In a Unix-style environment, the "working directory" is determined by the "shell" command
line interpreter. The actual value is determined only at execution-time. It is not something
"built-in" to the executable.
No, I mean this very unix-style working directory. Of course this is only a
debug setting, i.e. it does not influence the
build result. But if I write a command line tool, e.g. a copy, then I have some
test files to copy and need some arguments
for the copy tool to tell it which files to copy. Therefore it is possible to
set the working directory and command line
arguments in an ide (visual studio or xcode). For xcode there is even the
effect that after cmake runs the current
setting is lost which is not the case for visual studio since these settings
are stored in a separate file.
-Jochen
Are you trying to run the executable with ADD_TEST? In that case the working
directory is always CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR. If you need to change it, create
a wrapper script (you can do so using the CMake language in order to not depend
on any other interpreter).
no, just add_executable and then starting the target in debug mode
inside the ide. but maybe add_test is the solution to my
problem, i have to look at it. is this for starting an executable with
some command line arguments?
-Jochen
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