Re: [CMake] Compiling a file during CMake creation

2008-06-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-06-09 23:22+0200 Steven Van Ingelgem wrote: I am building an executable which I need to pre-process some files [...] Please be more specific about your actual needs. For example, do you want to preprocess at cmake time or at build time? If the latter just use add_executable to build

Re: [CMake] Compiling a file during CMake creation

2008-06-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday 09 June 2008, Steven Van Ingelgem wrote: > I am building an executable which I need to pre-process some files (much > like QT does). You mean like moc, which is then used to generate source which will be built ? You don't have to do that at cmake time, you can do this at build time. Wit

Re: [CMake] Compiling a file during CMake creation

2008-06-09 Thread Steven Van Ingelgem
I am building an executable which I need to pre-process some files (much like QT does). I think I found it though... I set the project and it seems to work, but it only compiles in debug mode, no matter what I set... Do you have any idea about that? Greetings 2008/6/9 Alexander Neundorf <[EMAIL

Re: [CMake] Compiling a file during CMake creation

2008-06-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday 09 June 2008, Steven Van Ingelgem wrote: > Hi, > > > I want to compile a file when parsing the CMakeLists.txt... Why ? Maybe there is already a ready-to-use macro which does what you want t do ? Do you want to test for something or do you want to build something you need later on ? Al

[CMake] Compiling a file during CMake creation

2008-06-09 Thread Steven Van Ingelgem
Hi, I want to compile a file when parsing the CMakeLists.txt... I tried the following: TRY_COMPILE( PROJ_OK ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/bin ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/externals/proj proj ) But this is returning "false"... What could I have done wrong? It is doing something, but I don't k