On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 19:38 +0530, vinay kumar Kotegowder wrote:
> The original intent of the snippet is to find the required tool chain
> (On windows : arm-none-eabi-gcc.exe or armclang.exe; On Linix :
> arm-none-eabi-gcc or armclang) path which can later be used to build
> the project.
>
> I have been trying with find_program and find_path commands.
> My understanding was that it would find the program from root(which
> is
> C: in Windows and / in Linux) and all the sub directories underneath
> it but I learnt from your reply that it is not the case.
>
> Can this be done? I mean, should it be possible to find the program
> without hard coding the path ?
It is possible to pass hints and paths to find_program() telling it
additional places to look ("it *might* be in C:/MinGW/whatever/bin"),
but other than that, find_program() does not search recursively. See
the find_program() documentation for more details:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/command/find_program.html
Again, for GCC, I strongly recommend that you use a toolchain file,
rather than setting CMAKE_C_COMPILER from inside your project. CMake
does a bunch of checks with the compiler when you first call project(),
which end up no longer being valid if you change CMAKE_C_COMPILER. (I
suppose you could set CMAKE_C_COMPILER from in your project before
calling project(), but I do not recommend this method.) You *can* call
find_program() from inside your toolchain file if you don't want to
hard-code the paths.
Kyle
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