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Kamil Zaripov
Kamil Zaripov

Reputation: 990

Copy target file before linking another (CMake)

I have a CMakeLists.txt that builds some c++ plugin and another CMakeLists.txt that builds application that should load this plugin. Before launching application I need to copy plugin file into some path, relative to the application binary (say path_to_executable/Plugins).

plugin's CMakeLists.txt:

...

add_library(plugin SHARED lib.cpp)

...

application's CMakeLists.txt:

...

target_sources(app PRIVATE main.cpp)
add_subdirectory(plugin_subfolder)
add_dependencies(app plugin)
???

How can I create rule that will insure plugin file is in correct place before compiling target app?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (1)

ixSci
ixSci

Reputation: 13718

You can produce you library directly to the place you need w/o any 2 step process of first creating it somewhere and then copying (which is also possible). To achieve this you can set the LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY property on your library:

set_target_properties(plugin PROPERTIES LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY 
    "path_to_executable/Plugins")

Upvotes: 1

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