Yes, there is a limitation. You can't use them in OUTPUT. See
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12877
Petr
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I was specifying that in my path for one of the OUTPUT files in
> add_custom_command(). Is there any limitation on where/how it can be
> used in a custom command?
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:41 PM, David Cole <david.c...@kitware.com> wrote:
> > The multi-configuration generators do understand CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR.
> >
> > CMake generates code to call your custom command, including $(OutDir)
> > wherever you reference ${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}, and then Visual Studio
> > sets that before invoking your command so that it gets resolved to the
> > correct configuration-specific string.
> >
> > Are you seeing your command called with the literal $(OutDir) from
> > Visual Studio? It should already be substituted for you by the time
> > you see it in your command's argument parsing.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On second thought, CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR won't work for multi-configuration
> >> generators. It is using $(OutDir) for Visual Studio 2008 generator,
> >> which my custom command can't understand. I'd like to use
> >> $<CONFIGURATION> but then it won't work for single-configuration
> >> generators (like NMake) where I want it to be "." only.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Sorry I got confused, what I needed to use is CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Robert Dailey <
> rcdailey.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I'm using a custom target to copy files to the following directory:
> >>>>
> >>>> ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/$<CONFIGURATION>
> >>>>
> >>>> This works on Visual Studio generators, because binaries that are
> >>>> compiled are placed in the directory above.
> >>>>
> >>>> However, if I generate for NMake on Windows, binaries are placed in
> >>>> ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY} instead, but $<CONFIGURATION> for
> >>>> the NMake makefiles generator says "Debug" instead of just "." so my
> >>>> files do not copy to the correct location.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can anyone explain this? Am I doing something wrong? How can I make my
> >>>> files copy to the appropriate binary output directory on both
> >>>> generators?
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