[CMake] How to pass a configuration file to CMake?

[Petr Kmoch]

Hi Cedric.

I have never used it myself, but I believe you're looking for CMake's
command-line option '-C <initial-cache>':
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake.1.html

Petr

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Cedric Doucet <cedric.doucet at inria.fr>
wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if it's possible to pass a configuration file to
> CMake.
> I have to pass a lot of information to CMake and the resulting command
> line is very long to type.
> Would it be possible to create a file containing all needed definitions
> and pass it to CMake?
>
> For exemple, instead of typing
>
> cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/me/there -D
> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/local/gcc/4.9.3/g++
>
> would it be possible to create a file containing
>
> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/me/there
> CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/local/gcc/4.9.3/g++
>
> and pass it to CMake?
>
> Cédric
>
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