On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Ryan Pavlik <rpav...@iastate.edu> wrote: > Why are you trying to do this before the project command?
To result in a shorthand that I don't HAVE to copy and paste; because definition of compiler requirements for passing definitions that are string literals is lacking? You can set the > target name to be something different from the project name, and you can > even set the output name of the executable/library to be different than what > would be automatically set by default from the target name. Sure... but I don't; so it would be a reasonable shorthand within this source domain. (I've done > this, to embed the platform into the code and/or output name) > My guess: you've done a lot of work with makefiles and the C preprocessor. > It looks like you're overthinking it - CMake is a reasonably high-level > scripting language, not a macro language or preprocessor. Maybe :) That's really the question though - how is this not what I want? > Could you share a high-level intended behavior with the list so we might be > able to give you a more satisfying answer? In the end, during compilation I want to define a 'variable' that IS the name of the library itself. That name is usually only passed to the linker. different compilers have different syntax for defining string literals like #define TARGET_NAME "MyLibrary.Dll" I don't want to define the name in two places, I want it to be definitively the project name, because why would it be any other name in a new development? gcc[ld] -DTARGET_NAME="\"libsack.so\"" -o libsack.so <sources> wcc[wlink] -DTARGET_NAME="libsack.so" -o sack.dll <sources> /* I'm not sure about this one... it might be like gcc, but it may be version dependant also */ mc[link] -DTARGET_NAME="libsack.so" -o sack.dll <sources> Since there is no definition in CMAKE for the quote to use to define a string literal to a definition... I think is the syntax to define a macro on the command line that has spaces, not strings... really probably openwatcom is broken. "-DOtherMacro 1+2=3" _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
