[CMake] CheckIncludeFiles: how to use?

[David Cole]

Try:CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES("unistd.h;stdio.h" var)

Or:
SET(files unistd.h stdio.h)
CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES("${files}" var)


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Marcel Loose <loose at astron.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Maybe it's because of a partially sleepless night, but I can't seem to
> figure out how I should use check_include_files().
>
> According to the docs (and the implementation) this macro should be used
> as:
>
>  CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES(INCLUDE VARIABLE)
>
> where INCLUDE should contain the list of files to include.
> Problem is, however, that the following doesn't work:
>
>  CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES(unistd.h stdio.h var)
>
> because this will assign "unistd.h" to the variable INCLUDE and
> "stdio.h" to the variable VARIABLE.
>
> The following also doesn't work:
>
>  SET(files unistd.h stdio.h)
>  CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES(files var)
>
> because the variable INCLUDE is not handled as the name of the list
> containing the header files, but as the name of the header file itself.
>
> Am I missing something here, or is this a bug in check_include_files()?
>
> Best regards,
> Marcel Loose.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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