On 2011-03-15 16:26-0600 Balamurali Ananthan wrote:
Hello,
Sorry if this question is too primitive. I am trying to extract the build dir
into the source code by populating it in a variable in my config.h file.
I do this by adding the following line in config.h.in
#cmakedefine PROJ_BUILD_DIR_CMAKEDEFINE ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}
In the config.h, this produces
/* #undef PROJ_BUILD_DIR_CMAKEDEFINE */
But if i replace it to this in config.h.in,
#define PROJ_BUILD_DIR_DEFINE ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}
Then the right value is populated in the config.h
#define PROJ_BUILD_DIR_DEFINE /home/bala/projects/myproj/trunk/builds
Wondering why didn't the cmakedefine work in this case? Any clues?
The man page for cmake covers this. #cmakedefine VAR will be
replaced with either #define VAR or /* #undef VAR */
depending on the setting of VAR in CMake.
Note that VAR is the CMake variable name and not its value.
PROJ_BUILD_DIR_CMAKEDEFINE does not exist as a CMake variable in your
project so its CMake value is false and you get the above commented
out #undef result just like the man page says. OTOH if you had
specified instead,
#cmakedefine PROJECT_BINARY_DIR
that would have configured (since PROJECT_BINARY_DIR is True in the
CMake sense for your project) as
#define PROJECT_BINARY_DIR
Of course, that would not have been too helpful to you since there is
no associated explicit value, but note #cmakedefine is quite useful
for the case of conditional programming depending on #ifdef (i.e.,
True/False binary macro logic).
For cases where you need to #define an explicit value, then you should
forget about #cmakedefine and use the configured #define (as you did
above).
Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
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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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(lbproject.sf.net).
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