[CMake] cmake - escape/delay variable expansion

Doug Reiland dreiland at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 16:24:10 EDT 2010


Is there anyway to do in a generic fashion?
For example, I don't know what all the variables are.
I can be certain that they are valid, for example build-dir is set in scope.
However, the string can have several "variables" in it.

Doug


On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Michael Hertling <mhertling at online.de> wrote:
> On 06/02/2010 08:37 PM, Doug Reiland wrote:
>> Sorry for another newbie question.
>>
>> Say, to setup a variable as follow so ${build-dir} doesn't get expanded
>> set(foo \${build-dir}/foo.c)
>>
>> How would a expand foo so ${build-dir} gets expanded?
>
> STRING(REPLACE "\${build-dir}" "xyz" foo "${foo}")
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
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