# Add rules to check the generated executable works. set(hello_output "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/hello.output") add_custom_command( OUTPUT "${hello_output}" COMMAND "$" > "${hello_output}" DEPENDS hello VERBATIM ) if(NOT DEFINED HELLO_OUTPUT_STRING) set(HELLO_OUTPUT_STRING "Hello world!\n") endif() set(hello_output_ref "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/hello.output.ref") file(WRITE "${hello_output_ref}" "${HELLO_OUTPUT_STRING}") add_custom_target(check_output ALL COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E compare_files "${hello_output}" "${hello_output_ref}" DEPENDS "${hello_output}" "${hello_output_ref}" VERBATIM )