[Cmake] Troubles figure out how to include .RES files for .NET

[Robert Mathews]

Never mind about the error messages. They were caused by me using
SOURCE_GROUP statements like this:

SOURCE_GROUP(RESOURCE_SOURCE *.rc)
SOURCE_GROUP(MESSAGE_SOURCE *.mc)
SOURCE_GROUP(IDL_SOURCE *.idl)

"*.rc", while the usual expression for specifying a file, are not correct
regular expressions.

It would be nice if cmake spat out the text for the regular expression that
it couldn't compile.

Rob.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Mathews" <rmathews at envoyww.com>
To: <cmake at public.kitware.com>; "Bill Hoffman" <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Cmake] Troubles figure out how to include .RES files for .NET


> Now I'm debugging the part where I need a custom command.
>
> I'm try to say something like this:
> 1. billingerrors.mc generates billingerrors.rc via the MESSAGE_COMPILER
> (mc.exe)
> 2. take billingerrors.rc and compile it into a dll called
> pwmsg_billingerrors.mc
>
> I currently get the error:
> Deleting intermediate files and output files for project 'allerrors',
> configuration 'Debug|Win32'.
>
> Building Custom Rule allerrors.vcproj.cmake
>
> cmRegularExpression::compile(): ?+* follows nothing.
>
> cmRegularExpression::compile(): Error in compile.
>
> cmRegularExpression::compile(): ?+* follows nothing.
>
> cmRegularExpression::compile(): Error in compile.
>
> cmRegularExpression::compile(): ?+* follows nothing.
>
> cmRegularExpression::compile(): Error in compile.
>
> So it seems to be executing the custom command, but something is going
wrong
> and I can't figure out what. In particular, I've verified that all the
input
> paths are correct.
>
> Is there a way to make CMake spit out more information about the text of
the
> regular expression that it is trying to compile?
>
> The input looks something like this:
>
> ===start-here===================================================
> SOURCE_FILES(MC_FILES billingerrors.mc)
>
> ## Generate all targets that describe how to go from .mc to .rc
> FOREACH(MC_FILE ${MC_FILES})
>  STRING(REGEX REPLACE "\\.mc" ".rc" RC_FILE ${MC_FILE} )
>  ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
>   SOURCE "${MC_FILE}"
>   COMMAND "${MESSAGE_COMPILER}"
>   ARGS "${MC_FILE}"
>   OUTPUTS "${RC_FILE}"
>   TARGET ALL
>  )
> ENDFOREACH(MC_FILE)
>
> ## Generate the list of message DLLS that allerrors depends on
> SET(MESSAGE_DLLS "")
> FOREACH(MC_FILE ${MC_FILES})
>  STRING(REGEX REPLACE "\\.mc" "" FILE_BASE ${MC_FILE} )
>  SET(MESSAGE_DLL pwmsg_${FILE_BASE})
>  SET(MESSAGE_DLLS ${MESSAGE_DLLS} ${MESSAGE_DLL})
> ENDFOREACH(MC_FILE)
>
> ## Generate all the library targets that depend on the .res files
> FOREACH(MC_FILE ${MC_FILES})
>  STRING(REGEX REPLACE "\\.mc" "" FILE_BASE ${MC_FILE} )
>  SET(MESSAGE_DLL pwmsg_${FILE_BASE} )
>  ADD_LIBRARY(${MESSAGE_DLL} SHARED ${MC_FILE} )
> ENDFOREACH(MC_FILE)
>
> ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(allerrors ALL)
> ADD_DEPENDENCIES(allerrors ${MESSAGE_DLLS})
> ===end-here===================================================
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Hoffman" <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
> To: "Robert Mathews" <rmathews at envoyww.com>; <cmake at public.kitware.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cmake] Troubles figure out how to include .RES files for
.NET
>
>
> > You can add a .rc file into the source list for a library or executable,
> > and cmake will do the right thing.   If you have some other program that
> > generates the .rc file, then you will have to use a custom command to
> create
> > the .rc file.
> >
> > If you look at the source for CMake, in the MFCDialog directory, you
> > can see an example of using a .rc file:
> >
> > SET( SRCS
> > CMakeSetup.cpp
> > MakeHelp.cpp
> > CMakeSetup.rc
> > CMakeSetupDialog.cpp
> > PathDialog.cpp
> > PropertyList.cpp
> > StdAfx.cpp
> > CMakeCommandLineInfo.cpp
> > )
> >
> > # add stuff to use MFC in this executable
> > ADD_DEFINITIONS(-D_AFXDLL)
> > SET(CMAKE_MFC_FLAG 6)
> >
> > ADD_EXECUTABLE(CMakeSetup WIN32 ${SRCS})
> > TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(CMakeSetup CMakeLib)
> > ADD_DEPENDENCIES(CMakeSetup cmake)
> >
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
> > At 09:45 PM 4/24/2003, Robert Mathews wrote:
> > >I'm trying to convince CMake to perform what should be a simple task -
to
> call the resource compiler on a .rc file to generate a .res file that the
> linker can link into the target program.
> > >
> > >Yet, I can't convince CMake to generate a .vcproj file that represents
> this.  In particular, I find myself arguing with CMake over whether a .rc
> file is really source or not (There seems to be a hardcoded list of what
is
> a source file or not, ie ".cxx,.c,.cpp,...in". The SOURCE_GROUP command
may
> be intended to override this, but it has only 4 lines (46 words) of
> documentation!, so I can't really tell).
> > >
> > >Actually, my task is slightly more complex, not that it matters since I
> can't get CMake to represent the first step. I'm actually using the
message
> compiler to generate the .rc files, which I then call the resource
compiler
> on to generate the .res files, which then get linked into a library.
> > >
> > >I'd offer more details, but I figure that this is the sort of thing
that
> someone might have figured out already.  Has anyone, or should I start
> posting what I've figure out so far?
> > >
> > >I've read all the docs at the www.cmake.org site. If anyone else has
> documentation or examples,  I'd welcome that.
> > >
> > >Rob.
> >
> >
> >
>
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