[SOLVED] Invoke MIDL compiler from CMAKE

Invoke MIDL compiler from CMAKE

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_custom_command(
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
COMMAND midl /h IFace.h /iid GUIDS.c /proxy Proxy.c /dlldata ProxyDll.c ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/include/Server.idl
)

When I build my project there are no files produced by MIDL compiler in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}

But with this signature files generates well

add_custom_command(
PRE_BUILD
TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}
COMMAND midl /h IFace.h /iid GUIDS.c /proxy Proxy.c /dlldata ProxyDll.c ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/include/Server.idl
)

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

That is how it works:

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}/include/Server.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}
    VERBATIM
    )
add_custom_target(midl-cmplr
    DEPENDS ${MIDL_OUTPUT}
    )
add_dependencies(${PROJECT_NAME}
    midl-cmplr
    )
set_source_files_properties(
    ${MIDL_OUTPUT}
        PROPERTIES
            GENERATED TRUE
            )