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In catkin, the "right" thing to do is probably to put the generated cpp files in build/ somewhere, and the generated headers in devel/include/package/

If your code generator isn't happy generating into multiple directories, you could probably generate into build/ and then have a second cmake target which copies the headers into devel/include/

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