On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 17:36 +0300, Eugene Karpov wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm working on a cross platform project. On Ubuntu I would like to > save all the compiler options, definitions and other complier related > stuff to a generated file to use it later for precompiled header > generation. > My issue is that I have to specify a macro that contain double quotes > for g++ compiler visibility attribute. When I generate a file with > double quotes they are not escaped. I also tried to use > `string(replace "\"" "\\\""...)` without effect. > I've made simple two files project of a shared library to show the > issue. It has only target compile definitions for simplicity. > > ------------- CMakeLists.txt ------------------ > cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14) > set(target test) > project(${target}) > if(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU|Clang") > set(API_IMPORT_MACRO "__attribute__((visibility(\"default\")))") > set(API_EXPORT_MACRO "__attribute__((visibility(\"default\")))")
The quotes here need to be double-escaped, like so: set(API_IMPORT_MACRO "__attribute__((visibility(\\\"default\\\")))") set(API_EXPORT_MACRO "__attribute__((visibility(\\\"default\\\")))") Kyle -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers