[Cmake] LoadCommand

[Bill Hoffman]

The LoadCommand is usually used in combination with the TRY_COMPILE command.
This means that you only have to distribute "C" source code, and cmake
will compile and load a shared library into itself during the configure
step.  So, yes you can dynamically extend cmake.

See this test for an example:
Tests/LoadCommand


-Bill

At 03:20 PM 2/19/2003 +0100, Nils H. Busch wrote:
>Hello,
>
>when using LoadCommand to extend Cmake with a custom command capability:
>
>Does this mean compiling a custom cmake with this new feature built in
>(aka patching it) or is there a way in cmake to provide a custom
>binary/module of this new command that can be loaded into cmake
>dynamically during runtime ?
>The latter would be preferably (at least to me) as one would not need to
>provide a custom cmake with a project, but certainly it would require a
>more elaborate mechanism.
>
>If cmake can be extended only statically, can a rudimentary parser be
>implemented with cmake commands as a *.cmake script ?
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>    Nils H. Busch
>    Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
>    phone:  ++49 (341) 9940-035 fax:  ++49 (341) 9940-204
>    e-mail: nilsb at cns.mpg.de
>
>
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