[CMake] ccmake options organization

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Mon Jun 13 05:01:16 EDT 2011


On Friday 10 June 2011, Tim Gallagher wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have a code that has a lot of options to enable/disable at compile time,
> and we'd also like to use ccmake to generate input files to run the code
> (possibly several hundred options combined). But the way the curses gui
> organizes things makes it really hard/tedious to keep track of things.
> 
> Has anybody looked into creating something akin to tabs to organize
> options? A simple way, for example, would be to put options with a common
> prefix on it's own tab so they stay organized. So anything with CMAKE_
> would be on a CMake tab, anything with MPI_ would be on an MPI tab, and so
> on.

cmake-gui, the really graphical client, does that already in the "Grouped 
View" mode. I'm not sure much work will still go into ccmake.

Alex


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