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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I'm using CMake 2.8.7 to generate VC++ 2010 project files on Windows 7.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>At my CMakeLists.txt files I defined the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>add_executable(VSData ${SRC} ${INC})<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Target_link_libraries(VSData ${SOME_LIBS})<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Now I start cmake from my build directory with: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>>cmake -G "Visual Studio 10" ..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This works and I get the *.vcxproj files in build/VSData.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Now I want to copy the generated project files to another place at my file system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For this I added the following command at the end to my CMakeLists.txt:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>add_custom_command(TARGET VSData <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'> POST_BUILD <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'> COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'> ARGS -E copy ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/VSData/VSData.vcxproj ${destDir} VERBATIM)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I also tried this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:DE'>add_custom_command(TARGET </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>VSData</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:DE'>.vcxproj<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:DE'> POST_BUILD <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:DE'> COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:DE'> ARGS -E copy $<TARGET_FILE:</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'> VSData</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:DE'>.vcxproj> ${</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'>destDir</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:DE'>} VERBATIM)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>But nothing happens! No error message, no warnings and the file will not be copied!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>