[CMake] Include source files on a per-configuration basis

[David Cole]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> In visual studio, there is a way to exclude a source file from the build on
> a per-configuration basis (debug vs release). The actual VCPROJ looks like
> this when you exclude a CPP file from the build for only DEBUG
> configuration:
>
> <File
> RelativePath="C:\Code\work\rdailey-t510-sandbox\n2\gpr\security\gtisecprovcleartext.cpp">
> <FileConfiguration
> Name="Debug|Win32"
> ExcludedFromBuild="TRUE">
> <Tool
> Name="VCCLCompilerTool"/>
> </FileConfiguration>
> </File>
>
> Is there a way in CMake to make it generate this? There has to be some sort
> of platform agnostic feature for this, and for other platforms it will
> implement it accordingly
> ---------
> Robert Dailey
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In my particular CMake project, I have three CPP files:
>>     a.cpp
>>     b.cpp
>>     c.cpp
>> I want 'a.cpp' to be compiled in all configurations (release & debug).<br>
>> I only want 'b.cpp' to be compiled in DEBUG configuration.<br>
>> I only want 'c.cpp' to be compiled in RELEASE configuration.
>> How can I do this? I need something similar to the `debug` and `optimized`
>> keywords that are accepted by the `target_link_libraries()` CMake operation.
>> ---------
>> Robert Dailey
>
>
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At present, the only time we generate ExcludedFromBuild="true" is when
the source file property HEADER_FILE_ONLY is set to a non-false value.
That is on a per-source-file basis, though, not on a per-configuration
basis.

What you want is a new feature request for CMake. It does not exist yet.


HTH,
David