[CMake] cmake-gui, ccmake track user changes

Clinton Stimpson clinton at elemtech.com
Tue Sep 1 10:49:23 EDT 2009


Its already in cmake-gui.
Get the CVS version and you'll see it under Tools -> Show My Changes.
It'll give both -D command line arguments for cmake, and text you can 
use for an initial cache file.

Clint

On 09/01/2009 06:08 AM, Philip Lowman wrote:
> Mod insightful +1
> I would call it "Modified Variables" though instead of "User View".
>
> ...... Original Message .......
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:05:33 +0100 "Alin M Elena"
> <alinm.elena at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> This issue was touched twice in the past
>> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2009-April/thread.html#28419
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg22904.html
>>
>> Now I come with a feature proposal. I would like your comments on it before
>> adding it as an official feature request and maybe even start working on it.
>>
>>
>> cmake-gui keeps track of user settings within a session.
>>
>> cmake-gui is very useful specially for complex projects where iterative
>> configuration may be required in order to fix all dependencies.
>> A lot of times after you do the discovery step using cmake-gui the command
>> line equivalent is required.
>>
>> I propose to add a new view: User View that would highlight only the
>>      
> variables
>    
>> with which the user interacted but not the ones that were triggered by
>>      
> setting
>    
>> them.
>>
>> the output tab may for example show the cmake command line equivalent.
>>
>> Alin
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