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 source.cxx -o source_cxx_tro
and similarly for header.hxx files as well.
So I'll end up with some multiple commands (each for a file)
Then I run another perl scripn on the output generated from these commands (source_cxx_tro, header_hxx_tro)
perl combine.pl source_cxx_tro header_hxx_tro -o dir.trx
dir.trx is the output file.
I've something like this.
Loop_Over_All_Files()
Add_Custom_Command (OUTPUT ${trofile} COMMAND perl trans.pl ${file} -o ${file_tro})
List (APPEND trofiles ${file_tro})
End_Loop()
Add_Custom_Command (TARGET LibraryTarget POST_BUILD COMMAND perl combine.pl ${trofiles} -o LibraryTarget.trx)
What I expect is when building the post build target, the trofiles will be built first. but it is not the case. The ${trofiles} are not getting built and hence the post build command ends in a failure. Is there any way I can tell the POST_BUILD command depend on the previous custom command ?
Any suggestions ?
Thanks in advance, Surya
Use add_custom_command's to create a file transformation chain
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 ${SOURCES}) set(trofiles) foreach(_file ${SOURCES}) string(REPLACE "." "_" file_tro ${_file}) set(file_tro "${file_tro}_tro") add_custom_command( OUTPUT ${file_tro} COMMAND perl ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/trans.pl ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${_file} -o ${file_tro} DEPENDS ${_file} ) list(APPEND trofiles ${file_tro}) endforeach() add_custom_command( OUTPUT Foo.trx COMMAND perl ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/combine.pl ${trofiles} -o Foo.trx DEPENDS ${trofiles} ) add_custom_target(do_trofiles DEPENDS Foo.trx) add_dependencies(Foo do_trofiles)
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