From 43564d413058c44b7ea3f5c9326765f65814111d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Joshua=20Vanda=C3=ABle?= <joshua@vandaele.software>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:18:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] CMake: Only copy build_info.txt if autoupdate is enabled

---
 Source/Core/Common/CMakeLists.txt    | 2 +-
 Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Source/Core/Common/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Core/Common/CMakeLists.txt
index 2447d1ed40..c901e2ab6c 100644
--- a/Source/Core/Common/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/Core/Common/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ elseif(WIN32)
     )
   configure_file(
     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/build_info.txt.in"
-    "${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/build_info.txt"
+    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/build_info.txt"
     )
 
   target_link_libraries(common PRIVATE "-INCLUDE:enableCompatPatches")
diff --git a/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
index cd49f7f108..0a14ee11d7 100644
--- a/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -522,6 +522,13 @@ if(WIN32)
     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/qt.conf.win" "${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/qt.conf"
   )
 
+  if (ENABLE_AUTOUPDATE)
+    # Copy build_info.txt
+    add_custom_command(TARGET dolphin-emu POST_BUILD
+      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/build_info.txt" "${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/build_info.txt"
+    )
+  endif()
+
   # Delegate to Qt's official deployment binary on Windows to copy over the necessary Qt-specific libraries, etc.
   get_target_property(MOC_EXECUTABLE_LOCATION Qt6::moc IMPORTED_LOCATION)
   get_filename_component(QT_BINARY_DIRECTORY "${MOC_EXECUTABLE_LOCATION}" DIRECTORY)