I don't think it needs to be a custom command, you just do it inline. See e.g. FILE(STRINGS, ...) http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/file.html or FILE(READ, ...) http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-May/014222.html
There are several gotchas related to quoting. Ping the list if you run into trouble. - Dan On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Owen Alanzo Hogarth <gurenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > do you have any example of that? > > Would it be a custom command? I haven't seen anything like this being done > before? > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Owen Alanzo Hogarth <gurenc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I can put those in some type of array in my c source code. Now is it >> > possible to send that list back to cmake at build time so that it can >> > copy >> > those files to the binary tree on each build? >> >> You can write a script that parses the C source file (should be easy if >> you put the array body in a .h file with no decoration) and pulls >> it into a CMake list. > > -- 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://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
