[CMake] ADD_COMPILE_TEST macro

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Feb 11 12:45:55 EST 2008


Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>>   I would like to know if anyone has written a ADD_COMPILE_TEST macro
>> for cmake. Basically I would like to check that some template
>> instantiation should not compile, while other should. I tried quickly
>> doing cmake -P + TRY_COMPILE but I am getting an error :
>>
>>    Command TRY_COMPILE not scriptable
>>
>>   Code can be found here:
> 
> Maybe you want CHECK_CXX_SOURCE_COMPILES ? It comes with cmake.
> 
That won't help, as it is still not going to be accessible from a cmake 
-P script.   Why are you doing this as a -P script and not part of the 
build?

-Bill


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