[CMake] Passing variable to program

James Bigler jamesbigler at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 11:29:13 EDT 2009


Inside your CMakeLists.txt you can add a command line preprocessor definition:

add_definitions(-DVERSION="0.8.2")

James

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:42 AM, John Dey <jsdey at optonline.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have converted a program from using make to cmake.  I needed to make a
> change to the main.cc program to get it to work.  I am going back to see if
> I can get it to work without making the change.  main.cc has a statement
> something to the effect of "fprintf(stdin, "%s\n", VERSION);" and the
> Makefile contains the statement "VERSION = 0.8.2".  How can I set the
> variable VERSION in CMakeLists.txt?  Any direction on setting the variable
> would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> John
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