Personally would go with option number 2

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:58 AM Olivier Croquette <ocroque...@free.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> in one of our projects, we use copy_if_different to copy some DLLs
> required by the runtime. It's called as post-build action. The problem
> is that several targets want to copy the same DLLs, and when using
> parallelized builds, the different "cmake -E copy_if_different" can
> conflict, leading the whole build to fail.
>
> I see two options to fix this:
>
> 1. don't use copy_if_different, but a custom tool that can deal with the
> concurrency
>
> 2. instead of adding post-build actions to different targets, fill up a
> list containing all the files required, and add a single post-build
> action to a single target that copies all the required files in one go
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers
> Olivier
>
>
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