Merge topic 'target-runtime-dlls-doc' into release-3.26 e0335f5830 Help: Update $<TARGET_RUNTIME_DLLS> docs to use cmake -E copy -t Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !8185
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst index 8bb9dde..c3e87d7 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst
@@ -1673,8 +1673,8 @@ **On non-DLL platforms, this expression always evaluates to an empty string**. This generator expression can be used to copy all of the DLLs that a target - depends on into its output directory in a ``POST_BUILD`` custom command. For - example: + depends on into its output directory in a ``POST_BUILD`` custom command using + the :option:`cmake -E copy -t <cmake-E copy>` command. For example: .. code-block:: cmake @@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ add_executable(exe main.c) target_link_libraries(exe PRIVATE foo::foo foo::bar) add_custom_command(TARGET exe POST_BUILD - COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy $<TARGET_RUNTIME_DLLS:exe> $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:exe> + COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy -t $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:exe> $<TARGET_RUNTIME_DLLS:exe> COMMAND_EXPAND_LISTS )