On 3/28/2019 4:12 PM, Kyle Edwards wrote:
One more thing: if you want the custom target to be built by "make" or
"make all", you have to give it the ALL argument:
add_custom_target(mygeneratedtarget ALL
DEPENDS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/mygeneratedfile
)
Otherwise you can build the target wi
On 3/28/2019 3:33 PM, Kyle Edwards wrote:
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:
a
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 (comma
I have spent a few hours trying to solve what seems like a simple problem.
I need to generate a file with some dependencies and install it.
If I want cmake to figure out how to compile and link it, I can
add_executable(mytarget mytarget.c)
install(TARGETS mytarget DESTINATION bin)
I also
