[CMake] Getting Location of This File

Daniel Dilts diltsman at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 00:30:29 EDT 2015


Yes, ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} has the path to the CMakeLists.txt file
that has the include() command.  Is there a variable with the path of the
file referenced by the include() command?

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:40 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:

> ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}  - path of the root cmake file called
> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} - path of the current cmakelists
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Daniel Dilts <diltsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a set of CMake commands that I want to place in a single file and
>> have other projects use it.  The commands in the file must affect the scope
>> that references it, so the declared functions, include_directories, etc.
>> must affect things in the scope that includes it.
>>
>> I attempted to place these things in a file and use
>> include(filename.cmake) to add the file.  This appears to work until the
>> file with the include() is in a different location.
>>
>> I need the include_directories to be relative to the location of
>> filename.cmake, not the CMakeLists.txt that included it.
>>
>> Is there any way to accomplish this?
>>
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