Re: [CMake] ExternalProject_Add ... output directy (sln file directory)

2017-03-31 Thread Christophe Demez
Also, I have try with a sample, just a main and a lib. But it seems that the lib CMakeLists.txt file is not called ! The project is created, but it does not point to the source code by example and the "message" are not displayed in the console too ! The download link :

Re: [CMake] ExternalProject_Add ... output directy (sln file directory)

2017-03-30 Thread Christophe Demez
BTW, I notice this too, if I use the following command line with an empty cmakelists.txt file : cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" And it also generate the .sln (and other files) in the same folder, but I don't request to build such a solution ! right ? In reality, I only need a

Re: [CMake] ExternalProject_Add ... output directy (sln file directory)

2017-03-30 Thread David Cole via CMake
Do give it a BINARY_DIR, but do NOT give it a BUILD_COMMAND. Giving it an empty BUILD_COMMAND means "do nothing" for the build step and using "cmake --build ./LibraryBuild" does not work unless cmake is in your PATH, and with a Visual Studio solution, you also need to specify "--config Release" or