Hi Brandon, > > Hi List, > > > > I want to add a definition to the compiler, so I do an > ADD_DEFINITIONS(). > > The defintion I want to add is a quoted string which should > be parsed with leading and ending ". > > So I tried to escape it with \, but this doesn't also work. > > > > It should look like > ADD_DEFINITIONS(-DPPATH="${path_to_somewhere}"), and then in > the used c file the preprocessor will parse PPATH to > "/path_to_somewhere". > > But it currently pares it wihtout the quote sign. In the c > file it will be used as a char*, so the quotes are important. > > > > How can this be done? > > It's a nightmare but it can be done. Chicken does it. You > have to be really really careful about all the different > levels of escapes and quotes. Sometimes \" is all you need. > Sometimes \\\" is what you need, because you need double \\ > to survive CMake argument processing. > It doesn't help that MACROs consume quotes when they > shouldn't, as per bug #5389. The first thing you need to do > is figure out the exact point in your conversion(s) where > you're losing the quotes. \" does work in SET assignments.
It seems that \\\ has fixed my problem. Thanks for your help. Greetings Alexander ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: This e-mail may contain confidential information intended solely for the addressee. If you have received this e-mail in error, please do not disclose it to anyone, notify the sender promptly, and delete the message from your system. Thank you.
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