On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 16:38 -0400, Norton Allen wrote:
> Related to that, I noticed in another thread the mention of
> 'CMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_ALL_DEPENDENCY'. If that were set in this case,
> how could I indicate that install depends on mygeneratedtarget?
There is no way to do this. C/C++ targets (e
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 Thu, 2019-03-28 at 16:07 -0400, Norton Allen wrote:
> Kyle,
> What you say makes sense, and I can even understand why
> add_custom_target might do that, but I cannot get this to actually
> work. Here is a minimal CMakeLists.txt. mysourcefile is just and
> empty file.
> I have these files in test
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 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
> >
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 unconditionall
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 exact
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
