[CMake] CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS don't work in CMakeLists.txt

[Wagner, David]

I've tested this on Ubuntu 15.10 using CMake 3.2.2

Where, in the CMakeLists did you put it? As far as I can tell, it needs to be 
done before defining the targets for which you want compile commands to be exported.

W

On 07/12/2016 11:35, Fabrício Ceolin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you David. Which version of cmake and operational system are you using?
> In my CMakeLists.txt file, I tried to set
>
> set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS 1)
>
> and
>
> set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
>
> without success, unfortunately.
>
> Em qua, 7 de dez de 2016 às 08:13, Wagner, David <david.wagner at intel.com
> <mailto:david.wagner at intel.com>> escreveu:
>
>
>
>     On 05/12/2016 12:31, Fabrício Ceolin wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I am trying to put
>      > set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ,1) inside a toolchain file but the command
>      > has no effect there. I've tried to put it in CMakeLists.txt too using the
>      > previosly set and add_definitions(-DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1) without
>      > success.
>
>     "set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS 1)" inside the CMakeLists.txt works for me
>     but note that you have an extra comma before the "1" value. CMake only uses
>     commas for lists. It probably also works in the toolchain file. I don't see how
>     using add_definitions() would work because it is only used in the compiler's
>     command line.
>
>     W
>
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