[CMake] Using a variable as a method name

[LaViolette, Alan]

Thanks that works great.  I just wrote an eval macro that does that

From: David Cole [mailto:david.cole at kitware.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:22 AM
To: LaViolette, Alan
Cc: cmake at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] Using a variable as a method name

Not directly, but as a workaround, you could write that into a file, and then include the file.

i.e.:

file(WRITE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/tmp.cmake" "BAR_${FOO}(arg1 arg2)")
include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/tmp.cmake)

You may need to do some quoting and/or escaping to get things working depending on how complex arg1 and arg2 are in reality.

This sort of "eval" functionality has been requested (and denied ;-) before:

  http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=4034
  http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11845


HTH,
David


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:02 AM, LaViolette, Alan <ALAVIOLETTE at overwatch.textron.com<mailto:ALAVIOLETTE at overwatch.textron.com>> wrote:
Hello

I would like to call a method based on a variable name such as

set( FOO "123")
BAR_${FOO}(arg1 arg2)

would do the same as

BAR_123(arg1 arg2)

Does any way exist to do this in CMake, such as a call() or eval() command?


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