Re: [CMake] [CMAKE] Getting compilation date through CMake

[Fraser Hutchison]

Hi Jon, You'd have to invoke the command prompt to execute this I think.  On Windows this should be the value of the COMSPEC environment variable, so your command would be something like: execute_process(COMMAND     $ENV{COMSPEC} /c date /t     OUTPUT_VARIABLE _output ) However, this is Windows-specific.  If you can specify CMake version 2.8.11 as a minimum, you could use the string(TIMESTAMP ...) command instead: string(TIMESTAMP _output "%d/%m/%Y") Bear in mind that these only execute when CMake runs (i.e. at configure time) rather than at build time, so strictly-speaking you're not actually grabbing the compile date. Cheers, Fraser. On 05/12/2013 19:32, Jon Haitz Legarreta wrote: Hi there, I was trying to get the compilation time through a CMake-executed command in order to know the compilation time of a given project. In my custom.cmake file I was using execute_process(COMMAND     date -t     OUTPUT_VARIABLE _output ) It turns out that the _output variable is empty when I compile my project. However, the command works well from the command line. I'm working on a Win 7  64-bit machine. I wanted to avoid using an extra C/C++ code file to get the current time. Am I missing something? Thank you, JON HAITZ -- 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: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

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