I looks like this has something to do with the nature of the key/value. For values listed as REG_SZ (within regedit.exe), CMake can retrieve the content but for values stored as REG_EXPAND_SZ I systematically get "/registry". I don't know much about the Windows registry but I did a quick survey of different computers/users in the lab and the user path can be either one which makes it difficult to implement a robust solution. Am I the first one to run into this issue?
Anton On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 12:13 -0400, Anton Deguet wrote: > Bill, > > I had some success with the key expansion but I haven't been able to do > what I need. Basically, I would like to get the un-expanded content of > the user path, i.e. not the expanded path (user and system) which can be > found using $ENV{PATH}. > > I tried the following code, i.e. adding two variables, one using the > other: > > SET(CISST_PATH ${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH} ${LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH}) > SET(CISST_PATH_REG_KEY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Environment;CISST_PATH") > EXEC_PROGRAM(${CMAKE_COMMAND} > ARGS "-E write_regv \"${CISST_PATH_REG_KEY}\" > \"${CISST_PATH}\"") > > SET(OTHER_PATH_REG_KEY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Environment;OTHER_PATH") > SET(OTHER_PATH "c:/prg;%CISST_PATH%") > EXEC_PROGRAM(${CMAKE_COMMAND} > ARGS "-E write_regv \"${OTHER_PATH_REG_KEY}\" > \"${OTHER_PATH}\"") > > GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(TMP "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ > \Environment;OTHER_PATH]/dummy.dum" PATH) > > MESSAGE("${TMP}") > > At that point, everything looks great and I can check the results with > "reg.exe", the expansion works ... > > Now, if I try to retrieve the user path using > GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(TMP "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ > \Environment;PATH]/dummy.dum" PATH) > > TMP is set to "/registry" ... Any explanation or better solution to > just retrieve the value as a string? > > > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 20:55 -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: > > At 05:36 PM 9/6/2006, Anton Deguet wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I have found that using EXEC_PROGRAM with ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E I can > > >write/remove a key in the Windows registry but I haven't figured out how > > >to read a key. Is there a simple solution for that? > > > > Sure, but it seems not to be documented.... > > Several commands including GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT will expand things > > like this: > > > > "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\JavaSoft\\Java Development > > Kit\\2.0;JavaHome]/bin" > > > > You can use this to read registry values. I will add some docs in > > the morning. > > > > -Bill > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CMake mailing list > > CMake@cmake.org > > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake -- Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ERC CISST Johns Hopkins University _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake