[CMake] Double quotes being removed Windows removing compiler flags

[François Best]

Okay, none of these solutions give the expected result..

What is strange is that the ampersand character is correctly expanded into
the & tag, and in  cmVisualStudioGeneratorOptions.cxx I can see that
replacement, as well as the quote being transformed (theoretically) into
the " tag..

Another thing to note is that the list of options in the generated project
looks like a CMake list, semicolon separated, with every element
encapsulated into escaped quotes. While this is a safe way to handle spaces
for every element, it prevents from using quotes in the options
themselves..
Basically, the tool I'm using is expecting quotes around the value of the
option only.

The only other way I see to do this is to process the generated solution
file post-generation. As I didn't see such a thing in CMake, maybe a script
launching both the CMake generation and the replacement of (let's say)
@quote@ tags could do the trick, although this needs to be done in every
project in the tree, damn..

I'll run a debug build of CMake tomorrow to follow the generation, to have
a better understanding of the problem.

Best,

François Best
Hardware & Software Engineer

Eiosis - http://www.eiosis.com/



2012/7/11 François Best <francois.best at eiosis.com>

> Hi David,
>
> Unfortunately, even that syntax still removes the quotes in the generated
> project, but thanks for the heads up!
>
> @Andreas: I'm going to check your solution, thanks!
>
> Best,
>
> François Best
> Hardware & Software Engineer
>
>  Eiosis - http://www.eiosis.com/
>
>
>
> 2012/7/11 David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>
>
>>  The syntax in your original post is incorrect.
>>
>>
>>   set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG} /Test1:"Test1")
>>
>> should be:
>>
>>
>>   set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG} /Test1:\"Test1\"")
>>
>> i.e., to CMake, the set call should look like two arguments here: the
>> variable name and a double quoted string with any nested quotes escaped
>> with a \ character
>>
>> The C and CXX flags variables are all single string values with multiple
>> flags separated by spaces. With your original syntax, all the spaces get
>> turned into semi-colons because there are multiple (more than just 2)
>> arguments to the set command.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
>>
>>
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