[CMake] how to hide cmake files?

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Fri Oct 29 17:52:39 EDT 2004


CMakeList files belong in the source tree.
You want to use the "out of source" build with cmake.
So:
MainDir
  --src/CMakeLists.txt
  --project
   
cd project
cmake -G"NMake Makefiles" ../src
nmake

-Bill


At 05:39 PM 10/29/2004, Kutty Banerjee wrote:
>Hi,
> Suppose i have the following directory structure viz.,
> 
>MainDir
>    ---src
>    ---project
>        -CMakeLists.txt
> 
>Now in the `CMakeLists.txt' in the project directory, i have a SUBDIRS(../src) which is
>where the source file is. And i do
>CMake -G"NMake Makefiles" . All works fine
>and i get    a makefile in the project directory. When i do nmake in the project
>directory however, the build process crashes.
> 
>The reason i m doing the above is to ensure that the cmake related files stay in a separate
>folder than my src, bin and lib files. 
> 
>Is there a work around this please?
> 
>With Thanks
>Kutty S Banerjee
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