You might consider using my CreateLaunchers cmake module that will set
up the debugger for you to add whatever directories you like to the PATH
(on windows) so that it can find the dynamic libraries. I haven't tried
it in the case that the libraries are built in the same project - you'd
probably have to do a little work to figure out where they were going to
land to be able to pass that path - but it works great for successfully
finding third-party libraries. (In a pinch, you could build the install
target, then run the regular one, having put the install location of the
libraries into your RUNTIME_LIBRARY_DIRS)
Example usage:
list(APPEND RUNTIME_LIBRARY_DIRS ${VRJUGGLER22_RUNTIME_LIBRARY_DIRS})
add_executable(roxbury ${SOURCES}
target_link_libraries(roxbury ${EXTRA_LIBS})
create_default_target_launcher(roxbury
FORWARD_ARGS
RUNTIME_LIBRARY_DIRS
${RUNTIME_LIBRARY_DIRS}
ENVIRONMENT
${VRJUGGLER22_ENVIRONMENT})
The module can be found, among other places, in one of my projects on
Github:
http://github.com/rpavlik/wiimote-head-tracker-gui/tree/master/cmake/
It also creates cmd/sh files for running out of the build tree, with the
same setup. Takes a lot of the pain out of using third-party dlls.
Hope this helps!
Ryan
On 8/20/10 2:10 PM, Knox, Kent wrote:
My current codebase produces an executable with several dynamically
linked libraries. I can't step through the code under the debugger
until I've built the 'install' project, which copies all the binaries
into the same output directory; they then can find each other. Of
course, at this point I need to change the debugger command path to
point to the 'install' directory to find my executable in its new home.
Is there a way to configure cmake and visual studio projects such that
they know to debug the applications built in the install directory?
Kent
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