[CMake] OPTION-like combobox

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Brad King<brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there anything like OPTION but which allows to select one value
>> from a limited list of values (a combobox). Something like:
>>
>> OPTION( CRYPTOBACKEND "Select a cryptography backend" VALUES "OpenSSL"
>> "LibTomCrypt" "LibDES" DEFAULT "OpenSSL" )
>
> There is in CMake HEAD from CVS.  See
>
>  cmake --help-properties
>
> and look for the "Properties on Cache Entries" section.
>
> In particular, the "STRINGS" property does what you want, at least
> in the cmake-gui:
>
>  set(CRYPTOBACKEND "OpenSSL" CACHE STRING
>      "Select a cryptography backend")
>  set_property(CACHE CRYPTOBACKEND PROPERTY STRINGS
>               "OpenSSL" "LibTomCrypt" "LibDES")
>
> This feature will be included in the 2.8 release.

Cool, thanks!

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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