I have a situation where I need to pass strings with spaces in them as definitions in CFLAGS, e.g.
SET(CMAKE_C_CFLAGS -DINPUT_STRING=\\\"first\\ second\\\"") This is NOT working for Visual Studio, which is apparently quite picky about this - it apparently needs to end up with something like: INPUT_STRING="\"first second\"" I can duplicate the "\" quote structure part (VERY ugly - \\\"\\\\\\\") but I'm getting stopped cold by the space between first and second. I've tried quoting variations, and while I can preserve the space as far as CMake's definition in the cache, the results that get written into the Visual Studio file ALWAYS seem to break on the space, quoted or not. e.g. I get: INPUT_STRING="\"first or INPUT_STRING="\"first\ etc. For variable definitions I might be able to live with not using a space, but some of the arguments I have to pass in are pathnames with spaces. That's user controlled - I HAVE to be able to handle it, or in the worst case impose the limitation of no spaces in pathnames on Windows (ouch). Can someone tell me how to quote a space such that it ends up included in the preprocessor definition line in a Visual Studio project? Cheers, CY _______________________________________________ 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