On 01/10/2012 11:14 AM, Martin Uhrin wrote: > Dear CMake community, > > firstly, thank you for the extremely useful build tool, it's saved me a > lot of time and effort! > > I'm trying to solve the following problem: > > I'd like the user (i.e. non-developer compiling my code) to have the > option to specify a location for an external library and *iff* this > option is set it should be used as the 'top-priority' search location > for that library, falling back to all the others if it is not found or > not set. Ideally this option would be set as a variable so that it is > visible in e.g. ccmake. > > The reason for doing this is that if the user just sets a variable to > indicate the library path I would then have to manually check that the > library does indeed exist at that path. > > Is there a way to do this? > > Many thanks, > -Martin
There are quite a few such variables: CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH CMAKE_FRAMEWORK_PATH CMAKE_APPBUNDLE_PATH CMAKE_IGNORE_PATH Michael -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake