[CMake] add_executable(...) with source from another path

Alan W. Irwin irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Tue Feb 15 15:07:18 EST 2011


On 2011-02-15 16:06-0200 Felipe Ferreri Tonello wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> I'm new to CMake and I'm really enjoying it. Anyway.. I'm porting a gnu
> makefile project to CMake and I need to compile 3 sources code to generate one
> executable.
>
> What's the better way to do that with CMake?

Use the full pathname for each src file.  The predefined variable
${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} (see
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables) which points to the
top of the source tree is a big help here.

Alan
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