[CMake] Cmake coloring gcc output on errror

Michael Wild themiwi at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 07:56:20 EST 2012


On 01/11/2012 01:44 PM, Michael Hertling wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 07:17 PM, vivek goel wrote:
>> Is there a way to color warning/error of gcc with cmake ?
> 
> AFAIK, no, but you might remember the power of *nix, feed the output
> of "make VERBOSE=1 2>&1" into sed/awk/perl/<your-favorite-here> and
> use ANSI Control Sequence Initiators:
> 
> CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8 FATAL_ERROR)
> PROJECT(P C)
> FILE(WRITE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/main.c "int main(void){Return 0;}\n")
> SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES(main.c PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-Wall")
> ADD_EXECUTABLE(main main.c)
> 
> % cmake <srcdir>
> ...
> % make VERBOSE=1 2>&1 | sed \
> -e 's%^.*: error: .*$%\x1b[37;41m&\x1b[m%' \
> -e 's%^.*: warning: .*$%\x1b[30;43m&\x1b[m%'
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael

Does colorgcc work with CMake? That would be a *lot* easier...



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