[CMake] CMake with Lua Experiment

[Brandon Van Every]

On Nov 27, 2007 2:32 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2007 3:55 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I noticed the "unpack" command.
> >
> > sources = {
> >   "simpleLib.cxx",
> >   "simpleCLib.c",
> >   "simpleWe.cpp"
> > }
> >
> > cm_add_library ("simpleLib", "STATIC", unpack(sources));
> >
> > Would this be necessary / paradigmatic in Lua?  In CMake I just use lists.
>
> Reading the Lua docs, it seems one uses a table instead of a list.
> There's a shorthand for calling a function that has 1 table as its
> argument: f{whatever} instead of f({whatever}).  So I think the above
> could have been:
>
> cm_add_library{"simpleLib", "STATIC", "simpleLib.cxx", "simpleCLib.c",
> "simpleWe.cpp"}
>
> and of course the function would have to handle the table
> appropriately.

Lua also has a varargs interface via ... so there's no reason this has
to be done with a table.  But I guess you knew that already.  So, the
real wart is that in CMake we only have to type ${sources} and in Lua
we'd have to type unpack(sources) all the time.  That's gonna get old.

> Now I'll see if we can get rid of all those pointless quotes.

It doesn't look possible.  That's annoying.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every