[CMake] Forwarding parameters to cmake through cmake-gui

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi Physhh,

I like the idea. Instead, a gui panel (with tooltips, doc, ...) should be
autogenerated from the option associated to the corresponding cmake
executable.

Would be happy to review changes / patches.

Thanks
Jc


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:47 AM, physhh . <physhh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've already searched for a feature like this but was not able to find it.
> Then i've looked up in the cmake-gui source code but couldn't find anything
> related.
>
> What I'm looking for:
> If cmake is used directly from the command line, it's possible to pass a
> bunch of options (
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.12/cmake.html#section_Options). This
> is nice because with this it's possible to use default settings - even if
> the cache get deleted. I'm actually really interested in this because it
> would be possible to set the CMAKE_MODULE_PATH variable via batch file -
> which is neat for custom find modules in custom locations.
>
> My Request:
> I would like to see a feature which makes it possible to pass command line
> options to cmake-gui which get forwarded to cmake when it gets called. To
> make this work the cmake-gui could look for parameters which look like
> "forward-*" (where the * is a cmake option name) and pass it to cmake.
>
> Are there any counter-arguments against this?
> In my opinion it would make things much cleaner.
>
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