Hi Jean, I'm not quite sure I've understood your feedback correctly. You mean it would be nice to add a panel to the gui which lists all forwarded options with description text?
Will try to create a patch for this. Thanks for your time On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin < jchris.filli...@kitware.com> wrote: > Hi Physhh, > > I like the idea. Instead, a gui panel (with tooltips, doc, ...) should be > autogenerated from the option associated to the corresponding cmake > executable. > > Would be happy to review changes / patches. > > Thanks > Jc > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:47 AM, physhh . <phy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've already searched for a feature like this but was not able to find >> it. Then i've looked up in the cmake-gui source code but couldn't find >> anything related. >> >> What I'm looking for: >> If cmake is used directly from the command line, it's possible to pass a >> bunch of options ( >> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.12/cmake.html#section_Options). >> This is nice because with this it's possible to use default settings - even >> if the cache get deleted. I'm actually really interested in this because it >> would be possible to set the CMAKE_MODULE_PATH variable via batch file - >> which is neat for custom find modules in custom locations. >> >> My Request: >> I would like to see a feature which makes it possible to pass command >> line options to cmake-gui which get forwarded to cmake when it gets called. >> To make this work the cmake-gui could look for parameters which look like >> "forward-*" (where the * is a cmake option name) and pass it to cmake. >> >> Are there any counter-arguments against this? >> In my opinion it would make things much cleaner. >> >> -- >> >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >> >> Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more >> information on each offering, please visit: >> >> CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html >> CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html >> CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake >> > > > > -- > +1 919 869 8849 >
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