Hi, this is kind of a side problem that was asked of me. I'm not sure how many hoops I actually want to jump through to solve this. But, here's the situation.
I have a really nice, traditional C based project in CMake. All my dependency tracking works really well for cross-platform and IDE integration and even have resources/bundling/codesigning working nicely in the single build step. Now somebody throws me a curve ball and wants to use the Nim language. The specifics of the Nim language itself is not that important to this topic, but the key piece of information is that the Nim compiler can generate C files as output. So the question is, how can I invoke Nim to compile a list of pre-known Nim source files, and then slurp in the generated output C files and build them as part of my normal CMake build process. The curve ball is this: I don't know all the names or how many files the Nim compiler generates. If I know all the names beforehand, I think I know how to deal with this situation. But instead, I get a directory of C files. The names seem to be dependent on which library features were used and also what the user's source files were named. I suspect the standard library could theoretically change too so future versions of Nim may have different files. I know file globs with CMake don't auto-track changes and I think the problem gets more trickier because of the indirection to invoke Nim. (i.e. When I first glob the files, the directory is empty, then the Nim compiler is invoked later and the files appear, but it is too late for CMake to see without a regeneration). Anyway, I was wondering what the best approach is. Thanks, Eric -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
