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AndaluZ
AndaluZ

Reputation: 1536

How to tell CMake where to put build files?

I want to tell CMake to output files and folders to a different folder instead of the current folder. I'm talking about the generated files by CMake below:

Is there a way to let CMake output these files and folders in another folder? I wrote a tool that executes CMake from the root of the project-directory, as a result my project-directory gets messed up with the generated files and folders listed above.

Here a link what I want: http://pastebin.com/cxykCi5M

Hope this will clarify more what I want.

Upvotes: 44

Views: 18645

Answers (1)

Fraser
Fraser

Reputation: 78448

You can use the undocumented command line options -B and -H to specify your build directory and source directory respectively. So, from your project's root, you can do:

cmake -Bbuild -H.

(Where build is your build directory path.)

Upvotes: 91

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