[CMake] How to read content of a registry entry on WIN32?

[Alexander.Camek at elektrobit.com]

Hi Eric,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmake-bounces at cmake.org 
> [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf Of Eric Noulard
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:38 PM
> To: CMake ML
> Subject: [CMake] How to read content of a registry entry on WIN32?
> 
> I want to use the content of a regsitry entry
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GnuWin32/InstallPath
> 
> in order to use it in a FIND_PROGRAM , PATHS argument?
> 
> find_program(LEX_PROGRAM
>                      NAMES flex lex
>                      PATHS
> "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\GnuWin32\\InstallPath]/bin"
>                      NO_DEFAULT_PATH
>                      DOC "A lex-compatible lexer generator")
> 
> but this does not work?
> 
> How can I do that?

I just do that and it works for me.

FIND_PROGRAM(FLEX flex [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\GnuWin32;InstallPath]\\bin)

Greetings

Alexander


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