On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 15:26 -0400, Norton Allen wrote:
> On 3/28/2019 3:11 PM, Kyle Edwards wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 14:58 -0400, Norton Allen wrote:
> > > because mygeneratedfile is not a 'target', and I can't make it
> > > into a target with add_custom_target() because that's talking
> > > about something else entirely (commands that will be run
> > > unconditionally, not based on dependencies)
> > What exactly do you mean by "based on dependencies"? Do you mean
> > that this file has dependencies on something else, or that
> > something else has dependencies on it?
> I mean this file depends on some source files--if the source files
> change, I want to rerun the generation step.
Using the DEPENDS argument of add_custom_command() will do this.
However, add_custom_command() on its own isn't enough to ensure that
the file is generated before installation. You need to pair
add_custom_command() with add_custom_target(). Example:
add_custom_command(
OUTPUT mygeneratedfile
COMMAND mytool -o mygeneratedfile
DEPENDS mysourcefile
)
add_custom_target(mygeneratedtarget
DEPENDS mygeneratedfile
)
This is different from:
add_custom_target(mygeneratedtarget
COMMAND mytool -o mygeneratedfile
BYPRODUCTS mygeneratedfile
DEPENDS mysourcefile
)
because it will only run mytool when it needs to (when mysourcefile has
changed).
Kyle
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