Overwrite gtests property specific output dirs

Author: ptheywood

cmake/googletest.cmake

@@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ if(NOT googletest_POPULATED)
     set(gtest_force_shared_crt ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
     add_subdirectory(${googletest_SOURCE_DIR} ${googletest_BINARY_DIR} EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
     CMAKE_SET_TARGET_FOLDER("gtest" "Tests/Dependencies")
-    # Suppress warnigns from this target.
+    # Suppress warnigns and overwrite output directories
+    include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/set_output_directories.cmake)
     include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/warnings.cmake)
     if(TARGET gtest)
         DisableCompilerWarnings(TARGET gtest)
+        OverwriteOutputDirectoryProperties(TARGET gtest)
     endif()
 endif()
 

cmake/set_output_directories.cmake

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-# Set the locations of ARCHIVE (.lib/.a), LIBRARY (MODULE .dll/.so, SHARED.so) and BINARY (.dll,.exe/binary)
+# Set CMake variables which influence the location of otuput artifacts such as executables, .so, .dll, .lib files.
+# Do this by controlling the default variables, and also providing a function to reset per-target properties to the current global variables.
 
 # Only set these if they have not already been set.
 # Set them to be relative to the Project Source directory, i.e. the location of the first call to CMake
@@ -12,3 +13,33 @@ endif()
 if(NOT CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY)
     set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin/$<CONFIG>)
 endif()
+if(NOT CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY)
+    set(CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin/$<CONFIG>)
+endif()
+
+# Provide a target specific method to overwrite the values set on a target to the current values of the global CMAKE variables.
+# This is to overwrite per target setting such as in gtest when using add_subdirectory.
+function(OverwriteOutputDirectoryProperties)
+    # Parse the expected arguments, prefixing variables.
+    cmake_parse_arguments(
+        OODP
+        ""
+        "TARGET"
+        ""
+        ${ARGN}
+    )
+    # Ensure that a target has been passed, and that it is a valid target.
+    if(NOT OODP_TARGET)
+        message( FATAL_ERROR "OverwriteOutputDirectoryProperties: 'TARGET' argument required." )
+    elseif(NOT TARGET ${OODP_TARGET} )
+        message( FATAL_ERROR "OverwriteOutputDirectoryProperties: TARGET '${OVERWRITE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY_PROPERTIES_TARGET}' is not a valid target" )
+    endif()
+    # Set the various target properties to current cmake global variable
+    set_target_properties(${OODP_TARGET}
+        PROPERTIES
+        ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}"
+        LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}"
+        RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}"
+        PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY     "${CMAKE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}"
+    )
+endfunction()