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

Cedric Doucet cedric.doucet at inria.fr
Mon Dec 21 07:29:05 EST 2015


Hi Peter! 

Thank you very much! 
It seems to be exactly what I want. :) 
I will try to use it. 

Cédric 

----- Mail original -----

> De: "Petr Kmoch" <petr.kmoch at gmail.com>
> À: "Cedric Doucet" <cedric.doucet at inria.fr>
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Envoyé: Lundi 21 Décembre 2015 13:25:53
> Objet: Re: [CMake] How to pass a configuration file to CMake?

> 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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