On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 3:00 PM Ke Gao <ke.gao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In a project, I need to first duplicate a source file and rename it. For
> example, I want to change "file.c" to "aaa_file.c", and after compiling, I
> will delete it. This is similar to using "cp file.c aaa_file.c". How to
> easily do this in CMake? I found "file" command doesn't work well for this.
>
>
add_custom_command( OUTPUT aaa_file.c
DEPENDS file.c
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different
file.c aaa_file.c
)
then you just have to reference the source file 'aaa_file.c' and it will
get updated if file.c is different. I also do
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E touch aaa_file.c
just to make sure it is new.
> Thank you very much.
>
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