You are over thinking it. As someone else stated, check if the build directory
and the source directory are the same and if they are you FATAL_ERROR with a
message. Otherwise you can put a single CMakeLists.txt file in the top level to
kick things off.
Plus, I think it is starting to become fairly understood that using the source
dir as the build dir is a "bad idea" at this point in software engineering. You
are just complicating things.
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From: CMake <cmake-boun...@cmake.org> on behalf of Randy Heiland
<randy.heil...@gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 9:23 PM
To: "J. Caleb Wherry" <calebwhe...@gmail.com>
Cc: "cmake@cmake.org" <cmake@cmake.org>
Subject: Re: [CMake] cmake buried in subdirectory?
Thanks for the reply. In my case, I didn't even want the CMakeLists in the
top-level dir. I didn't want to contaminate my top-level dir with anything
related to CMake. This would avoid, for example, an accidental overwrite of an
existing Makefile if one was to do a 'cmake .' in the the top dir.
It's quite possible I'm over-thinking this; I was just curious if it's even
possible. Seems like it should be.
-Randy
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 4:30 PM, J. Caleb Wherry <calebwhe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
There is no reason why this shouldn't work, I do something similar where
everything except my top-level CMakeLists is shoved into a subdirectory (away
from the src code location).
You don't have to muck with the project macro at all, not sure what you are
trying to accomplish with that? That just sets the name of the project.
All you have to be aware of is all the paths are now with respect to both
the CMakeLists and where ever you put your binary dir. So doing something like
the below allows you to reference things in your source tree (depending on how
far you away form the root, obviously):
get_filename_component(SourceRoot "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../"
ABSOLUTE)
The normal structure of the CMake file doesn't change, nothing special has
to be done with the project macro. Unless you have a more specific error,
that's about all the advice I have.
-Caleb
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Randy Heiland <randy.heil...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Simple question... can I/how can I keep my top-level cmake-related stuff in
a subdirectory of my main project directory? E.g.:
/myproj
/cmake
CMakeLists.txt
and then in the /cmake, I create a /build from which I attempt: cmake ..
I tried something as simple as this in my CMakeLists.txt, but it didn't
seem to work:
project (../myproj)
The primary reason I'd like to do this is to hide/make optional the cmake
build approach (and keep in place an existing/traditional Makefile in the
parent directory). Play along...
thanks, Randy
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