[CMake] Newbie questions: verbosity and compiler invocation

[Michael Wild]

On 9. Sep, 2010, at 14:39 , David Aldrich wrote:

> Hi Michael
> 
>> With CMake you can use absolute and relative paths, no problem. If you use
>> absolute paths, please use one of the pre-defined variables, such as
>> ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}, ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}, ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
>> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}, ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR},
>> ${<project_name>_SOURCE_DIR} or ${<project_name>_BINARY_DIR}.
> 
> Thanks. My situation is:
> 
>  ------ FolderA --- CMakeLists.txt
>      |
>      |- FolderB --- ErrorHandler.cpp
> 
> As FolderB is not beneath FolderA, I don't know how to specify FolderB/ErrorHandler.cpp in CMakeLists.txt using CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR. Do I need to set PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR to the parent folder of A and B?
> 
> Can you suggest how I can do this please?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> David


Are they _always_ next to each other and is FolderB always called by that name? If so, just do ${CMAKE_PROJECT_DIR}/../FolderB.

Michael

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