Hello everyone, I hope you can help me understand this. I originally asked
the same question on stackoverflow, so if you want you can check there too (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23591085/how-to-correctly-set-cmake-custom-commands-for-external-projects
).
I have a main project (A) depending on 2 library projects (B, C).
─A
├──src
├──dep
│ ├─B
│ │ ├──include
│ │ ├──src
│ │ └──CMakeLists.txt[B]
│ └─C
│ ├──include
│ ├──src
│ └──CMakeLists.txt[C]
└──CMakeLists.txt[A]
The CMakeLists.txt of A is something like this (shortened):
project(A)
add_subdirectory(dep/B)
include_directories(dep/B/include)
add_subdirectory(dep/C)
include_directories(dep/C/include)
add_executable(A ...src/files...)
target_link_libraries(A B)
target_link_libraries(A C)
When B or C are built I'd like to have the output directories copied to the
output directory of A, so that it can find the updated compiled libraries
(.lib and .dll files).
This is what I tried using (in CMakeLists.txt[A]):
add_custom_command(TARGET B POST_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:B>
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:A>)
add_custom_command(TARGET C POST_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:C>
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:A>)
But apparently is not executed.
I tried doing the copy on the PRE_BUILD step of A like this:
add_custom_command(TARGET A PRE_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:B>
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:A>)
add_custom_command(TARGET A PRE_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:C>
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:A>)
It works, but I have to recompile A every time I'm working on B or C.
What's the correct way to configure this?
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