Would it work to use ctest in a custom comand to build the generated
source files?
I'm thinking something similar to how the VTK Examples directory is
built as a separate project.
Clint
Alan W. Irwin wrote:
Hi Christoph:
I am going to put this back on the list because others may have better
insight
than I do.
On 2008-05-14 07:05+0200 Christoph Cullmann wrote:
Still, how can I at all include the generated sources into my build?
I don't
want to use the makefiles generated but better convert them to cmake,
too.
I have now reviewed your original question, and I think I understand it
better. At build time you want to generate a large number of source
files
with unpredictable names and then use some CMake rule to build a library
using that source. If you had predicatable names the problem is
straightforward, but with unpredictable ones, I believe doing all that at
build time with CMake is tough/impossible, but I would be happy to be
proved
wrong by someone else here.
One alternative I was thinking of was to generate your source at cmake
time
with bison/flex using EXECUTE_PROCESS. The you can collect all the
generated file names into a list variable using file(GLOB ...) or
file(GLOB_RECURSE...) and then use ADD_LIBRARY with that list variable to
create a run-time rule to generate the library. But I don't recommend
that
alternative since the cmake step would run bison/flex every time to
generate
(or regenerate) your source, and the dependencies on the files used by
bison/flex would be completely ignored.
Are you sure the generated source file names are completely
unpredictable?
Unless some random generator is being used, those names are probably
predictable, and it might be worth your while to look further into
figuring
out how you can do that.
Alan
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Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the
Loads of
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