[cmake-developers] How to set environment variable for custom command.

[Brad King]

On 07/19/2013 10:36 AM, Nicolas Desprès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In Unix shell we can do that:
> $ VAR=foo cmd in out
> 
> This way the environment variable is only set in the environment of the process of the command and not the in current shell like when using the "export" built-in.
> 
> I would like to be able to do the same for a custom command in CMake. Ideally I was looking for something like that:
> 
> add_custom_command(
>   OUTPUT out
>   COMMAND cmd in out
>   DEPENDS in
>   ENVIRONMENT VAR foo
>   )

There has been some progress here:

https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/pull/31

-Brad