Question

I’ve recently started using CMake for one of my multi-platform projects, but I’m having a little trouble figuring out how to do something.

Basically, inside the project I’ve got multiple libraries and executables, all in their own folders. I would like to place all of the compiled libraries into one directory on build i.e. a lib folder inside the CMake build folder. I would like to do the same things for the executables.

CMake Build Directory

| ----------> bin (where i want the executables to go)

| ----------> lib (where i want the libraries to go)

| ----------> utils (where the libraries are ordinarily compiled)

| ----------> test (where the executables are ordinarily compiled)

There are directories inside utils and apps for all the different libraries and executables I’m making. I have a CMakeLists in the base folder of my source directory which adds all the subdirectories. If anything does not make sense then feel free to ask.

Answer 1

You can also use this:

  set( CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin )
  set( CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib )
  set( CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib )