I just tried it (maybe I did something wrong) but it does not work:<div><br></div><div><div>ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy $<TARGET_FILE:${MY_PROJECT }> ${EXTERNAL_DIR} VERBATIM)</div>
<div>ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy $<TARGET_FILE:${MY_PROJECT }>.lib ${EXTERNAL_DIR} VERBATIM)</div><div><br></div><div>The first line copy the dll, no pb with this it was already working. The second line try to copy project_d.dll.lib for Debug and project.dll.lib for Release </div>
<div><br></div><div>How can I access the name of the output file without the extension?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/9 Rolf Eike Beer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eike@sf-mail.de">eike@sf-mail.de</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I have different projects that generate a .lib and a .dll file, and I<br>
> would<br>
> like to copy these 2 files in a given directory as a post-build event. My<br>
> main problem is that my debug libraries are post-fixed with _d, which<br>
> require that I use the following code:<br>
><br>
> SET(MY_PROJECT project)<br>
> ADD_LIBRARY(${MY_PROJECT } SHARED ${HDRS} ${SOURCES} ... )<br>
> [...]<br>
> ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND<br>
> ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy $<TARGET_FILE:${MY_PROJECT }> ${EXTERNAL_DIR}<br>
> VERBATIM)<br>
> ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND<br>
> ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH}/debug/${MY_PROJECT }_d.lib<br>
> ${EXTERNAL_DIR}/${MY_PROJECT }_d.lib VERBATIM)<br>
> ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(TARGET ${MY_PROJECT } POST_BUILD COMMAND<br>
> ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH}/release/${MY_PROJECT }.lib<br>
> ${EXTERNAL_DIR}/${MY_PROJECT }.lib VERBATIM)<br>
><br>
> The main problem is that the tool crash when I compile it the first time.<br>
> For instance if I start to compile in Release the _d.lib file does not<br>
> exist and it does not even process to copying the release .lib. Ok, it<br>
> works if I compile it in the right order, but I would prefer to have a<br>
> clean code for this.<br>
><br>
> I have been looking at using<br>
> INSTALL(TARGETS ${MY_PROJECT} DESTINATION ${EXTERNAL_DIR} COMPONENT<br>
> Libraries)<br>
> but it creates a separate install vcproj that runs after all my projects,<br>
> and I need my libraries copied right after the compilation as other<br>
> projects depend on these output. So this is not a solution for me.<br>
><br>
> So I tryied to have a look at per configuration ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND. I<br>
> found different discussion about this problem, but I don't manage to make<br>
> it work:<br>
> <a href="http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9974" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9974</a><br>
> <a href="http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11209" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11209</a><br>
><br>
> The first one provide a patch, but I don't manage to get it working with<br>
> cmake. Is there a special way to include these "patches" to our<br>
> configurations?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Use generator expressions to get the name of the generated files.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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