He probably just uses a project.vcproj.user file, and uses the configure_file() command on it to fill in command arguments, environment variables, etc etc.<div><br></div><div>I've done this before and it works fantastically, although I have never tried it to force the EXE to search for my DLL files without copying them. Good idea though, if it works!<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Michael Jackson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.jackson@bluequartz.net">mike.jackson@bluequartz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am VERY interested in how you did this. Did you have CMake write a file for you? Do you have some code to share by any chance?<br>
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Thanks<br>
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On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Ben Medina wrote:<br>
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> I'd guess the performance of fixup_bundle will be a big pitfall if<br>
> you're planning on doing this after every build.<br>
><br>
> An entirely different approach is to configure a Visual Studio .user<br>
> file to set the PATH environment variable (not setting it globally;<br>
> just for debugging your app from within VS). You still have to track<br>
> which directories to add to the PATH, but this approach has worked<br>
> flawlessly for us (across multiple versions of VS, as well as 32- and<br>
> 64-bit configs).<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:41 AM, David Cole <<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> 2012/1/9 Hauke Heibel <<a href="mailto:hauke.heibel@googlemail.com">hauke.heibel@googlemail.com</a>>:<br>
>>> 2012/1/9 Michael Stürmer <<a href="mailto:m.stuermer@pmdtec.com">m.stuermer@pmdtec.com</a>>:<br>
>>>> Awesome! Sometimes you just need to know what's already available to solve your problems in a very elegant way. I'll have a look at these bundles and probably switch to them instead of maintaining my own stuff!<br>
>>><br>
>>> When looking at the initial problem, I am pretty much convinced that<br>
>>> you need a combination of your own script and GetPrerequisites since<br>
>>> you want to copy to your run-time output directory - and there to<br>
>>> specific sub-directories depending on the build type.<br>
>>><br>
>>> It may well be that I have overseen some functionality in those new modules ...<br>
>>><br>
>>> - Hauke<br>
>><br>
>> BundleUtilities, on Windows, should copy dlls to be in the same<br>
>> directory as the executable being analyzed... So, as long as the exe<br>
>> is in the right directory when fixup_bundle is called on it, then the<br>
>> dlls will get copied into that same directory.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>> David<br>
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