[CMake] CMAKE vsprops or equivalent...

[Tim St. Clair]

Environment variable, for the exact reason you mentioned.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mike Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Tim St. Clair <timothysc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> when using vsprops on windows, you can set environment variables which
>> will be exist for a given project when it compiles.
>>
>> The example given in the link below:
>> set_tests_properties(SomeTest PROPERTIES ENVIRONMENT
>> "PATH=c:\somedir;c:\otherdir")
>>
>> is close to what I'm looking for, but I would like it to be fore any
>> TARGET.  I tried doing:
>> set_properties(MyTarget PROPERTIES ENVIRONMENT "MYVAR=foo1;MYVAR2=foo2")
>> with no success on visual studio 2008.  During compilation of MyTarget
>> those vars *do not* appear to be set.
>>
>> The template .vcproj, is kinda ugly, but may be last hope unless there
>> is a cleaner method for doing thing in VS.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tyler Roscoe <tyler at cryptio.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:49:12AM -0600, Tim St. Clair wrote:
>>>> Is there support for visual studio property sheets in CMAKE, or the
>>>> equivalent for *compile-time* env settings?
>>>
>>> I haven't played with this solution but maybe it will help:
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005901/how-to-set-path-environment-variable-using-cmake-and-visual-studio-to-run-test
>>>
>>> I don't know what you mean by "compile-time env settings".
>>>
>>>> I have had little luck finding this information online, and there are
>>>> no (+,-) refs in the manual.
>>>
>>> I don't know what you mean by "(+,-) refs in the manual".
>>>
>>> tyler
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Timothy St. Clair
>
>
> Little late to the thread, but are you trying to set a Compile
> Definition on an actual environment variable because a script or
> something else is running during the compilation and it needs to know
> where/what something is?
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>



-- 
Cheers,
Timothy St. Clair