[CMake] relative path to toolchain does not work

Robert Maynard robert.maynard at kitware.com
Wed Jul 17 13:12:43 EDT 2019


Is this with a clean build directory? The toolchain file is ignored
once CMake has run and has done compiler detection.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:29 AM hex <hex7c3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I specified my toolchain like so:
>
> 1cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=myToolchain.cmake ..
>
> and created a toolchain file in project/myToolchain.cmake.
>
> Using relative path CMake first looks relative to the top of the build directory, then if not found there, relative to the top of the source directory.
>
> What means “the top of the source directory”? I placed the file in the source directory and receive:
>
> 1234CMake Warning:
>   Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:
>
>     CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE
>
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