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 whenev...

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 a...

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...

I want to use Linux if condition in CMakeLists.txt by add_custom_command(...) for i need run these if condition and do some judgement in makefile. Like this: cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8) a...

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( ...

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 d...

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 ou...

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...

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 ...

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 ( targets...

Is there any way to do the equivalent of add_custom_command (run an external script when a certain file changes), but for something that should be run during CMake script execution itself? (That is...

Having the same problem as here described, I want to execute a shell script as a POST_BUILD command of TARGET "package". Target platform is Debian/Ubuntu. I add following to the end of my CMakeLis...

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_mi...

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_targe...

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 ste...

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 translati...