[CMake] cmake command-line

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Dec 5 16:08:34 EST 2006


Brian Little wrote:
>
> How do you run cmake on the command-line and have it run to 
> completion? I have to run it more than once for it to find all the 
> variables and then spit out the build files. Is there a switch to tell 
> it to run until it is down?
>
> Right now to get around it, I have a batch file that runs cmake and 
> compares the current CMakeCache.txt to the last one generated until 
> there is no difference. Then it knows it is finished. But, this 
> requires having cygwin diff on any machine that needs to do this.
>
> I figure there has got to be a better way but I haven’t found it yet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
There is no non-interactive way to do this. CMakeSetup, ccmake, or cmake 
-i will all do this.
I suppose you could pipe yes into cmake -i.

-Bill



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