Hi,
I am new to using cmake, and trying to get a custom build command to embed
quotes for a project that I'm compiling in MS visual studio on a windows
machine.
I have this in my cmake file:
COMMAND ${FLEX_EXECUTABLE} -t ${WEBCORE_DIR}/css/tokenizer.flex |
"${PERL_EXECUTABLE}" ${MAKE_TOKENIZER} > ${DERIVED_SOURCES_DIR}/tokenizer.cpp
I need to achieve this custom build step in my generated vcproj file:
C:\cygwin\bin\flex.exe -t
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebCore\css\tokenizer.flex |
"C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe"
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebCore\css\maketokenizer >
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebKitBuild\DerivedSources\tokenizer.cpp
Please note the wrapping quotes around "C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe". That's
critical, or the DOS shell complains that 'C:' is not a valid command.
Cmake is removing the quotes and giving me this:
C:\cygwin\bin\flex.exe -t
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebCore\css\tokenizer.flex |
C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebCore\css\maketokenizer >
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebKitBuild\DerivedSources\tokenizer.cpp
Which fails like I said. DOS complains that 'C:' is not a valid command, and
doesn't parse it correctly without the quotes around the path to perl.exe.
When I try to escape the quotes, like this:
COMMAND ${FLEX_EXECUTABLE} -t ${WEBCORE_DIR}/css/tokenizer.flex |
\"${PERL_EXECUTABLE}\" ${MAKE_TOKENIZER} > ${DERIVED_SOURCES_DIR}/tokenizer.cpp
Cmake preserves the backslashes, and generates this:
C:\cygwin\bin\flex.exe -t
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebCore\css\tokenizer.flex |
\"C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe\"
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebCore\css\maketokenizer >
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebKitBuild\DerivedSources\tokenizer.cpp
I have also tried to work around it by performing a double macro expansion like
this:
SET(cmd "${FLEX_EXECUTABLE} -t ${WEBCORE_DIR}/css/tokenizer.flex |
\"${PERL_EXECUTABLE}\" ${MAKE_TOKENIZER} >
${DERIVED_SOURCES_DIR}/tokenizer.cpp")
COMMAND ${cmd}
It doesn't help... I get this:
"C:\cygwin\bin\flex.exe -t
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebCore\css\tokenizer.flex |
\"C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe\"
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebCore\css\maketokenizer >
E:\Wolverine\git-Jason\git-WebKit\WebKitBuild\DerivedSources\tokenizer.cpp"
The backslashes to escape the quotes were preserved (breaking it) and the
wrapping quotes around the outside of the whole command string were also
preserved, which makes the DOS shell think this is one long file name.
Whatever I try, the quotes are either completely removed, or the backslashes to
escape them are preserved as \" instead of becoming a simple "
I also tried putting the quotes in their own escaped substrings like this:
"\""${PERL_EXECUTABLE}"\""
COMMAND ${FLEX_EXECUTABLE} -t ${WEBCORE_DIR}/css/tokenizer.flex |
"\""${PERL_EXECUTABLE}"\"" ${MAKE_TOKENIZER} >
${DERIVED_SOURCES_DIR}/tokenizer.cpp
And I was surprised to see this output:
C:\cygwin\bin\flex.exe -t
E:/Wolverine/git-Jason/git-WebKit/WebCore/css/tokenizer.flex | \"
C:/cygwin/bin/perl.exe\"\"\"
E:/Wolverine/git-Jason/git-WebKit/WebCore/css/maketokenizer >
E:/Wolverine/git-Jason/git-WebKit/WebKitBuild/DerivedSources/tokenizer.cpp
So then I tried to put just the " into its own expansion like this:
SET(QUOTE \")
COMMAND ${FLEX_EXECUTABLE} -t ${WEBCORE_DIR}/css/tokenizer.flex |
${QUOTE}${PERL_EXECUTABLE}${QUOTE} ${MAKE_TOKENIZER} >
${DERIVED_SOURCES_DIR}/tokenizer.cpp
But the backslash to escape the quote is still preserved that way too, and I
get this:
C:\cygwin\bin\flex.exe -t
E:/Wolverine/git-Jason/git-WebKit/WebCore/css/tokenizer.flex |
\"C:/cygwin/bin/perl.exe\"
E:/Wolverine/git-Jason/git-WebKit/WebCore/css/maketokenizer >
E:/Wolverine/git-Jason/git-WebKit/WebKitBuild/DerivedSources/tokenizer.cpp
Is there any way to make this generate the output that I need? Is this a bug
in the version of cmake that I'm using (2.6 for windows ce) or is there a trick
to the cmake syntax?
For reference details, the complete context of my custom command comes from
this macro:
SET(MAKE_TOKENIZER ${WEBCORE_DIR}/css/maketokenizer)
# - Create ${DERIVED_SOURCES_DIR}/tokenizer.cpp
# GENERATE_TOKENIZER()
MACRO(GENERATE_TOKENIZER)
# do a little dance to embed quotes around perl.exe, or cmake messes them up
ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
OUTPUT ${DERIVED_SOURCES_DIR}/tokenizer.cpp
DEPENDS ${WEBCORE_DIR}/css/tokenizer.flex ${MAKE_TOKENIZER}
COMMAND ${FLEX_EXECUTABLE} -t ${WEBCORE_DIR}/css/tokenizer.flex |
"${PERL_EXECUTABLE}" ${MAKE_TOKENIZER} > ${DERIVED_SOURCES_DIR}/tokenizer.cpp
VERBATIM)
ENDMACRO()
GENERATE_TOKENIZER() # this is called out in a separate file
I am using cmake 2.6 for Windows CE because that's the version that was
branched to support builds for Windows CE (so unfortunately if this is a bug
that has been fixed, I can't update to cmake 2.8 - was there a work-around in
cmake 2.6?)
Ris Misner
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