[CMake] AStyle or similar code beautifier

[Leif Walsh]

What would be a good way to run a tool like this just before compiling? My naive solution is going to be to add a custom command to run it and touch a stamp, a target to run that custom command, and then make every single target in my project depend on that custom target. Is there a less invasive way to do this in cmake?

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> On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:06, Marcel Loose <loose at astron.nl> wrote:
> 
>> On 31/01/14 14:11, Paul Smith wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 02:26 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>> And to answer the OP's question, I can highly recommend uncrustify for
>>> code styling
>> I agree with Alan.  We did a huge reformatting effort last year to
>> change a very large C++ codebase from a style based loosely on
>> Whitesmith to a more common style.  I started with AStyle which is a
>> solid program, but it has limited customization support.
>> 
>> Then I found uncrustify and was quite satisfied with it.  I sent a few
>> patches for minor fixes and they were well received.  The main issue
>> with uncrustify is that the documentation could be better: for some of
>> the more advanced settings it's very hard to understand exactly what
>> they control.
> That's why I like universalindentgui, a standard Ubuntu package. You can
> immediately see what changes will be made to the code when you fiddle
> with one of the many settings in uncrustify (assuming it has effect on
> the source file you're viewing).
>> 
>> I had to do a bit of scripting around it since uncrustify didn't handle
>> all the whitespace conversion we wanted, but it worked great!
>> 
>> We didn't try to integrate it with the build system.  We just checked in
>> the configuration file and a script people could use if they wanted to
>> re-beautify their code.
> 
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