[CMake] An example of DEFINE_SYMBOL please

[Mike Jackson]

supposedly you can do
ADD_DEFINITIONS(...)
ADD_LIBRARY(...)
REMOVE_DEFINITIONS(...)

which might work.

--  
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Jul 7, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Yuri Timenkov wrote:

>
>
> On Monday 07 July 2008 19:59:24 Mehdi Rabah wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to set multiple symbols in one of my target of my project.  
>> I can't
>> use add_definitions because I don't want to define those variable  
>> for all
>> my targets, so I tried custom properties.
>>
>> set_target_properties( target PROPERTIES DEFINE_SYMBOL  VALUE1  
>> VALUE2 )
>> doesn't work : the function doesn't expect this number of variables.
>>
>> if I try :
>>
>> set( var "VALUE1 VALUE2" ).
>> set_target_properties( target PROPERTIES DEFINE_SYMBOL  ${var} )
>>
>> I get
>>
>> c1xx : fatal error C1083: 'VALUE2': No such file or directory
>>
>> I'm working with the microsoft compiler, and cmake 2.6.
>>
>> Any thoughts ?
> 1) Write with single define symbol. For example, put into some  
> header something
> like this:
> #ifdef MYTARGET_EXPORTS
> #define VALUE1
> #define VALUE2
> #endif
>
> 2) use set_target_properties( target PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /DVALUE1
> /DVALUE2 ).
> (According to documentation CMake 2.6 supports this, otherwise set
> COMPILE_FLAGS for particular source files).
>
> The latter is not portable, so you have to choose proper flags for  
> every
> compiler.
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Mehdi
>
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