[CMake] INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES per project

[Philip Lowman]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
> wrote:

> On Friday 10 April 2009, Adrian Boeing wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to have a portable way of having separate include
> > directories for each 'project' in my visual studio 'solution'.
> > ie:
> > common/
> > dir/file1
> > dir/file2
> >
> > share the include directory 'common' , and have seperate 'include1'
> > and 'include2' directories.
> > This would correspond to two 'projects' in my 'solution'
> > one with files1 and common,include1 directories
> > the other with files2 and common,include2 directories
> >
> > It is my understanding that INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES is a global setting?
>
> It's a per-directory setting, i.e. if a call to include_directories()
> applies
> to that directory and all sub directories of it, but not to sibling or
> parent
> directories.
> So you could do
>
> include_directories(common)
> in the toplevel CMakeLists.txt
> and additionally
> include_directories(include1)
> and
> include_directories(include2)
> in the dir/file1 and dir/file2 subdirectories.


I've filed a feature request to allow write-access to the
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES directory property.  This would allow people to remove
include paths if they had a need to.

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8874

-- 
Philip Lowman
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