I have two custom commands, do things for my target.

After linking my application, I need to about 4 commands to do extra processing on my ELF file.

For me this is a ‘boiler plate’ that occurs for every ELF we build. I want this in a directory with a bunch of other “boiler plate CMAKE code”.

So in that director/Cmake file – I have

   add_custom_command( TARGET 
                         foo.elf POST_BUILD 
                       COMMAND
                         blah blah blah
                       COMMAND
                         blah blah blah
                       COMMAND
                         blah blah blah
                       WORKING_DIRECTORY
                         ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}
                       VERBATIM
 )

The problem is that the ELF is defined and created in a different CMAKE file and cmake issues an error:

TARGET 'foo.elf' was not created in this directory'

Why does this need to be created in this CMakeList.txt file? I know the target is created in a different CMakefile in a different directory. so why does it have to be here?

Any idea how to work around this?

Is there a way to tell CMAKE – “this target was built in another CMakefile”?