[CMake] Re: How to pass arguments to 'cmake -P' scripts?

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Mon Feb 4 14:44:15 EST 2008


On Saturday 02 February 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Ick. Please, no http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms#TOFU.
>
> James Bigler wrote:
> > Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> but I couldn't figure out how to tell the script what parameters it
> >> should run with.
> >
> > [snip]
> > Make sure you put the arguments before theh -P ${my_cmake_script} or the
> > arguments won't get passed in.
>
> Ah, so *that's* what I was doing wrong. Sigh. It would be really nice if
> 'man cmake' documented that (in fact, if it just plain documented that
> yes, you /can/ pass defines into a -P script).
>
> Maybe like this?
>
> SYNOPSIS
>    cmake [options] <path-to-source>
>    cmake [options] <path-to-existing-build>
>    cmake [options] -P <file>
>    cmake -E [command]
>
> -P <file>
>    Process script mode.
>
>    Process the given cmake file as a script written in the CMake
> language.  No configure or generate step is performed and the cache is
> not modified. Arguments may be passed to the script as CMake variables
> by using -D. -P should be the last option on the command line.

I think this is documented now in cmake 2.4.8

Alex


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