cmake: How to make a script for copying Data files accompanying my program

Question

I am trying to automate my build process with cmake. There is currently only one issue:

Where is, in cmake\'s philosophy (if there is one), the best place to put the cop

Answer 1

As recently seen in this question, you can use configure_file to copy files to the build directory:

configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/input.txt
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/output.txt COPYONLY)

That does it once at build time and only when needed.