Copy target file to another location in a post build step in CMake

Question

I have a dynamic library that gets a different name depending on configuration, specified in the CMake scripts by:

set_target_properties(${name} PROPERTIES O         


        

Answer 1

Use generator expressions in the POST_BUILD command instead of manually computing the output path. These are configuration aware. Example:

add_custom_command(TARGET mylibrary POST_BUILD 
  COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy 
     "$"
     "my_target_path/$/$" 
  COMMENT "Copying to output directory")