[CMake] Forwarding parameters to cmake through cmake-gui

[physhh .]

Hi Jean,
I'm not quite sure I've understood your feedback correctly. You mean it
would be nice to add a panel to the gui which lists all forwarded options
with description text?

Will try to create a patch for this.

Thanks for your time


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <
jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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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