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A mechanism in CMake allowing users to define build steps other than compiling libraries and linking executables, supporting a more generalized concept of a build. Involves the add_custom_command and add_custom_target commands.

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CMake add_custom_command not being run

I'm trying to use add_custom_command to generate a file during the build. The command never seemed to be run, so I made this test file. cmake_minimum_required( VERSION 2.6 ) add_custom_command( OUTPUT hello.txt COMMAND touch hello.txt DEPENDS…
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add_custom_command is not generating a target

Perhaps this is impossible and I'm misreading the cmake 3.2 documentation, but I though creating a custom command would create a custom "target" in the Makefile so that I could build the target by invoking the name of the output file. The CMake docs…
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How to call a CMake function from add_custom_target/command?

Is it possible to call a CMake function out of an add_custom_target or add_custom_command? I know I could move the CMake function to a Python (or whatever) script and call it from add_custom_target/command but I would like to avoid having tons of…
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cmake add_custom_command

I'm struggling with add_custom_command. Let me explain the problem in detail. I've these set of cxx files and hxx files. I run a perl script on each of them to generate a certain kind of translation file. The command looks like perl trans.pl…
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How to get include directories from a target for use in add_custom_target?

I'm modeling dependencies with target_link_libraries, as is done in this blog post. target_link_libraries(Foo LibraryA LibraryB ) This is working great, but for various reasons I need to use add_custom_target to preprocess to a file through…
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CMake: execute a macro/function as the command of add_custom_command

I'm using an external library which provides a CMake function for automatic code generation, to be used in my CMakeLists. The problem is that whenever I modify a CMakeLists then the function is run again, triggering the recompilation of the newly…
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How to add multiple comments in add_custom_command of CMake?

This question is just out of curiosity as I noticed that only the last comment block was being printed. add_custom_command( TARGET target_a POST_BUILD COMMAND command_A_to_do_something COMMENT "Comment A" COMMAND command_B_to_do_something_else …
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Cmake: add_custom_command argument based on variable content

I'd like to have a Cmake function to copy some binaries to a specific location. Fo this I have the following function definition : function ( collect_binaries TARGET_NAME DEST_DIR ) set ( targetsToCopy ${ARGN} ) set ( copy_cmd "COMMAND…
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CMake: add dependency to add_custom_command dynamically

I have a CMake project with many subprojects. Each of them can use a function I provide to generate a small text file with some certain information (by calling add_custom_command). At the final step I'd like to combine all those files into one big…
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How do I run a python script every time in a CMake build?

Currently I have a need to run a Python script every time in CMake which generates a .qrc file. I can't use Qt Designer and I have to use CMake. set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON) is being used and fails whenever a resource is added or a name is changed, thus…
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CMake: How to add a custom command that is only executed for one configuration?

I want to add a cmake custom command that is only executed when the custom target is build in the Debug configuration while using the Visual Studio multi-config generator. Is there a clean way to do this? In order to implement this, I first tried…
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Can I manually use CMake's cpp file dependency-scanner in my cmake code?

I am trying to add a custom target with CMake that executes one command for each given .cpp file. The command should only be re-executed when the source file itself or one of the included source files changes. AFAIK to achieve this I need a list of…
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CMake: add_custom_command with PRE_BUILD does not work

In the following CMakeLists.txt file, although I have set an add_custom_command command with PRE_BUILD option, the custom command is not always executed before making the main executable: cmake_minimum_required(VERSION…
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How to Run a Basic `add_custom_command` in CMake

I'm just trying to get a basic CMake example up and running that can run some basic command line commands. I've been researching this for a while and I haven't had any luck. Am I completely using this wrong? Any and all input would be greatly…
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CMake add_custom_command with target_link_libraries

For a number of reasons I have to manually generate a static library through a custom command. However, it seems that the custom command is only executed when a target specifically requests its output files. If I try to link the generated static…
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