Invoke MIDL compiler from CMAKE

Question

I am going to use MIDL compiler with CMAKE but unable to invoke MIDL compiler from CmakeList

That is command which I use to achieve my goal

add_custo         


        

Answer 1

to improve upon @definename's answer and @nathan-moinvaziri's comment, it's not necessary to do add_custom_target as long as you add the output to your source files list, so the revised answer is:

set(MIDL_OUTPUT
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/IFace.h
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/GUIDS.c
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Proxy.c
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/ProxyDll.c
)
set(MIDL_FILE
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/BookSku.idl
)
add_custom_command(
    OUTPUT ${MIDL_OUTPUT}
    COMMAND midl /h IFace.h /iid GUIDS.c /proxy Proxy.c /dlldata ProxyDll.c ${MIDL_FILE}
    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
    DEPENDS ${MIDL_FILE}
    MAIN_DEPENDENCY ${MIDL_FILE}
    VERBATIM
)
# add_custom_target(midl-cmplr
#     DEPENDS ${MIDL_OUTPUT}
# )
# add_dependencies(${PROJECT_NAME}
#     midl-cmplr
# )
# set_source_files_properties(${MIDL_OUTPUT} PROPERTIES
#   GENERATED TRUE
# )
target_sources(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${MIDL_FILE} ${MIDL_OUTPUT})