Hi there,
Depends on what you mean by "tools". If you mean running some sort of
static analysis over your code, there's a few ways to do it. I prefer
to use add_custom_command which generates a new makefile based on some
output stampfile. You can make the stampfile depend on the input file
that you're analysing and add the stampfile as a source-level
dependency to your built library or binary. This way, the tool will be
re-run every time you modify the file.
For instance:
add_custom_command (OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${SOURCE_NAME}.stamp
COMMAND my-tool ${SOURCE_NAME}
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
-E touch ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${SOURCE_NAME}.stamp
DEPENDS
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${SOURCE_NAME}
COMMENT "Running my-tool
on ${SOURCE_NAME}")
[self-promotion]: I was doing this for quite a few tools, so I wrote a
module to quickly define functions that allow you to run various tools
over source files:
https://github.com/polysquare/tooling-cmake-util/blob/master/PolysquareToolingUtil.cmake
It has some dependencies which you can either install using conan or
just add them as git submodules and set CMAKE_MODULE_PATH
appropriately.
You can contact me on this email address if you need any help.
Thanks,
Sam.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Costean Adrian via cmake-developers
<cmake-developers@cmake.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am currently developing some projects which involves a build system and
> some tools. I would like to know what are the possibilities when it comes to
> integrate other tools in the cmake build system? How can that be done and
> what are the obstacles for achieving that?
> Thanks and regards,
> Adrian C.
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