cmake-custom-command

Use add_custom_command’s to create a file transformation chain *.(cxx|hxx) -> *_(cxx|hxx)_tro *_(cxx|hxx)_tro -> Foo.trx and make the last transformation an first class entity in cmake by using add_custom_target. By default this target won’t be build, unless you mark it with ALL or let another target that is built depend on it. set(SOURCES foo.cxx foo.hxx) add_library(Foo … Read more

The add_custom_target(run ALL … solution will work for simple cases when you only have one target you’re building, but breaks down when you have multiple top level targets, e.g. app and tests. I ran into this same problem when I was trying to package up some test data files into an object file so my … Read more