[CMake] CMake and SWIG

[David Cole]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Caron, Michael C. (US SSA) <
michael.caron at baesystems.com> wrote:

>  That is exactly what I had tried (thanks for confirming that things work
> the way I think) at first.  I didn’t try the SET(…) but I did put the full
> path to SWIG in my PATH.  Since that should have worked I tried something
> else.  I usually run from a .bat file on windows and an equivalent shell
> script on linux.  When I run the .bat file by double clicking from an
> explorer window I get no dice.  But if I run the same .bat file from the
> command line life is good.  It turns out the explorer window was open before
> I changed the environment variable and it didn’t pick up the environment
> change for any of its children.  I really hate it when I’m stupid.
>

Ha! -- don't forget "impatient, in a hurry, just forgot something" !=
"stupid"...

:-)



>
> Thanks for the nudge,
>
> Michael Caron
>
> Principle Software Engineer
>
> Systems Development Center
>
> BAE Systems, NA
>
> 95 Canal St.
>
> Nashua, NH 03064
>
> T:603-885-2096
>
> E:michael.caron at baesystems.com <E%3Amichael.caron at baesystems.com>
>
>
>
> *From:* David Cole [mailto:david.cole at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:16 PM
> *To:* Caron, Michael C. (US SSA)
> *Cc:* cmake at cmake.org
> *Subject:* Re: [CMake] CMake and SWIG
>
>
>
> If you open the file "C:/Program Files/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindSWIG.cmake" and read through it, you will
> see exactly where CMake is looking for SWIG.
>
>
>
> It uses:
>
> FIND_PROGRAM(SWIG_EXECUTABLE swig)
>
>
>
> (which means it's only looking in the PATH...)
>
>
>
> So you can either:
>
>
>
>   set(SWIG_EXECUTABLE "C:/full/path/to/swig.exe")
>
>   # (before FIND_PACKAGE(SWIG REQUIRED))
>
>
>
> or:
>
>
>
>   have swig.exe available somewhere in the PATH environment variable...
>
>
>
>
>
> HTH,
>
> David
>
>
>
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