[CMake] Passing variable to program

[John Dey]

James,

Just what I needed. Works like a charm.  Thanks.

John
On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:29 AM, James Bigler wrote:

> 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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