[CMake] User generated header file

[Eric Noulard]

2011/9/18 Perry Ismangil <perry at pjsip.org>:
> I'm converting Visual Studio project files to CMake.
>
> On of our project, one of the header file included in the project is
> deliberately missing, the user have to manually create it before
> building for the first time.
>
> When I tried this with cmake, it complained that it couldn't find the
> header file specified, which is of course true.
>
> How do I suppress this behaviour?

You may tell CMake that this file is generated as part of the build:
set_source_files_properties(your_header.h PROPERTIES GENERATED TRUE)

This should enable you to run CMake without the file
but the build should fail if it is not there at build time.

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Erk
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