Yeah, we'd like to support any CMake more recent than 3.7.0 (which is the first version to support server mode). So your fork would need to be based on a somewhat recent CMake. We probably wouldn't support a path directly in build.gradle since that is typically a source controlled artifact. We'd let you set a file path in local.properties and/or specify a CMake version number in build.gradle where we'd search for it in some well-known locations.
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Eric Wing <ewmail...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jom, > > I'm glad to hear Android's CMake will eventually catch up. > > But since you are here, can you add a feature that allows a user to > specify an alternate location for where CMake is located? There are > two useful cases for this. > > 1) Users daring or desperate enough to try using a more recent CMake > while they wait (perhaps they could have merged with Google's branch > manually) > > 2) In my case, I'm trying to implement new features into CMake (Swift > compiler support). It's not going to be mainlined anytime soon since > it is a long project, so even when you catch up, I still need to be > able to call my fork of CMake. > > I don't want to overwrite anything in the Android distribution, and I > have people using my stuff and helping me, so we need a way to > collaborate. A simple gradle argument that lets me specify an > alternative path to CMake would fix my problem. (The other things I > need are specifying a toolchain file which I think you already support > and an Initial Cache (-C switch) which maybe is implicitly supported > since it is just a generic CMake command line argument. > > > Right now, I am doing the alternative method of calling CMake myself > through Gradle/Groovy scripts as people used to do. But I never > figured out how to get debugger integration with Android Studio as a > consequence. I would really like to move to the official Google/CMake > support, but I can't do that unless I can invoke a different CMake. (I > did pull the Google fork of CMake and I think my changes are > mergable.) > > Thanks, > Eric >
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