[CMake] Pass value from CMake to source file?

Eric Noulard eric.noulard at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 05:38:40 EDT 2009


2009/10/4 motes motes <mort.motes at gmail.com>:
> Is it possible to send a user specified path from CMake to the final
> application (make it visible)? Depending on which machine I build my
> application on the path to some images may vary. I was therefore
> thinking to specify this path when building with CMake like:
>
> FIND_PATH(IMAGE_DIR REQUIRED)
>
> and then in my application do:
>
> #include<string>
> int main(){
>
>   std::string img0 = IMAGE_DIR + "image0.png";
>   return 0;
>
> }

You should use CONFIGURE_FILE for that.

Look for example this section of the Wiki:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_HowToDoPlatformChecks



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