[CMake] Calling of find_package from function

Andrey Upadyshev oliora at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 10:56:19 EST 2014


Thank you for advice Petr! I will go with this solution if can't find
another one. CMake macroses are slightly weird so I'm trying to avoid them
:)


On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Petr Kmoch <petr.kmoch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrey.
>
> As a workaround, you could make the calling context a macro instead of a
> function. Macros don't introduce variable scope.
>
> Petr
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Andrey Upadyshev <oliora at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm writing a wrapper around find_package so I call find_package from my
>> own function. I found it's near impossible because all the variables set by
>> finders remain in the scope of my wrapper function, rather than in the
>> caller's scope. Is there any way to force find_package to set all variables
>> in my function caller's scope? I.e. something like find_package(...
>> PARENT_SCOPE)?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Andrey
>>
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