[CMake] Need a configure_string() command

[David Cole]

See the docs for:

string(CONFIGURE ...)

  http://cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:string

That should help... :-)


David


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to develop some scripts that will take a portion of the
> vcproj.user file, specifically the <Configuration> portion, which is located
> in a separate file, and append it (N) number of times to a file, where N
> equals the number of configurations we have.
>
> Ideally I will start by using file() to read the entire contents of the
> file. After that, I need to configure the string to replace this:
>
> Name="${configuration}|Win32"
>
> so that it looks like so (for the debug configuration):
>
> Name="Debug|Win32"
>
> After that, I need to append the contents of this string to another file,
> which will be the final vcproj.user file.
>
> I can't use a file to configure this because of the way I'll be appending
> the contents, and I can't replace on the final file itself because there
> will be multiple ${configuration} variables, but they will each need to be
> assigned a different value.
>
> The only solution I see for this is to have a configure_string() function,
> which behaves exactly like configure_file() except input & output are string
> variables instead of files.
>
> Any thoughts on this? Workarounds?
>
> ---------
> Robert Dailey
>
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