On Nov 28, 2008, at 12:09 AM, Robert Dailey wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Alexander Neundorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
On Thursday 27 November 2008, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2008/11/27 Robert Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> find . -name "*.c" > source_files.txt
> >> edit source_files.txt and put that list of files exiplicitly
into a
> >> CMakeLists.txt file.
> >>
> >> file(GLOB is a bad way to get source lists for CMake. CMake
has no way
> >> of knowing when new files have been put in the directory.
> >
> > But unless I am missing a fundamental feature somewhere, GLOB
still seems
> > to be the better alternative. While it may not intrinsically
know when
> > new files have appeared on the filesystem, the programmer can
simply
> > re-run the CMake command to get an updated project with the
newly added
> > source files without editing the CMakeLists.txt file directly.
>
> Yes but when he add a source file, he won't necessarily remember he
> MUST rerun CMake manually
> so its next attempt to "build" the project will trigger either a
> compile error (added header missing)
> or link error (added source file not compiled).
>
> Whereas with hard-written sources files in CMakeLists.txt, the user
> will get accustomed to
> "simple" CMakeList.txt editing thus CMake will relaunch itself
> automatically when needed and
> in particular when a CMakeLists.txt is changed.
Additionally it can happen from time to time that there are files in
the
directories which you just started to write, or forgot to delete, or
somebody
else sent you, or... and which you don't want to build, but which
would be
found by the glob.
So, yes, put the files you want to have explicitely in your cmake
files.
Okay, so if I hard-code the list of files to compile, I still need
to create 1 CMakeLists.txt file for each of the 20 directories
containing CPP files to compile. However, this is simply to
modularize the CMake script itself. I suppose I could use include()
instead of add_subdirectory()?
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Yes, Include would be the better command to use if the cmake file is
just a list of files.
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BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net
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