[CMake] Windows mapped network drive and 'if EXISTS'

Nils Gladitz nilsgladitz at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 09:23:37 EST 2017


On 03/03/2017 02:28 PM, Louis-Paul CORDIER wrote:

>
> When I try to do a if(EXISTS "Z:\"), it never jump into the if statement.

Try if(EXISTS "Z:\\") or if(EXISTS "Z:/").
Either works for me.

if(EXISTS "Z:\") looks like it should have been a syntax error since the 
backslash starts an escape sequence [1].

Nils

[1] 
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-language.7.html#escape-sequences



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