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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>So, it seems it is not possible to have CMake NOT to use absolute paths</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Quote</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“CMake does always use absolute paths. It's part of the concept.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45856955/how-to-tell-cmake-to-use-relative-paths">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45856955/how-to-tell-cmake-to-use-relative-paths</a></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One use case:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>I have a Cmake script and I generate a Visual Studio project on machine 1</li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>I have another high security computer, machine 2, where I don’t have administrator privileges</li></ol><p class=MsoListParagraph>To install software and CMake is on the list of “not approved” software.</p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=3 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>I can copy the generated Visual Studio project from machine 1 to machine 2…</li></ol><p class=MsoListParagraph>But …alas, all miserably fails to compile because the paths are all wrong</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>One solution I have used in the past for small projects, like</p><p class=MsoListParagraph>1 project file, was to manually edit the .vcxproj Visual Studio file</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>For example replace this</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><AdditionalIncludeDirectories>F:\wt.leaflet\wt-4.0.1\src\3rdparty\gason\src;</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>With a relative path</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><AdditionalIncludeDirectories>..\..\..\3rdparty\gason\src;</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>Which works perfectly (also remove all the CMake generated things, it’s really not needed after the project is made), but for projects where the number of generated projects</p><p class=MsoListParagraph>Is more than 40, this is not a good way to spend our time</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>Of course , doing a dedicated program that does this replacement for us</p><p class=MsoListParagraph>Would be ideal</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>So, question, does anyone know of the existence of this program?</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>Also, this post circa 2008 says there was a “CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS”</p><p class=MsoListParagraph>That seems to have been deprecated</p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“If you set CMAKE_SUPPRESS_REGENERATION </p><p class=MsoNormal>to true, and CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS to true, you might get things to </p><p class=MsoNormal>work for a small project. “<span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>would this work? Of course I would have to travel back in time to 2008, but that’s another problem</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-March/020629.html">https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-March/020629.html</a></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I quote here the original post on this thread,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>“I cant help but comment that this is unnecessarily complicated when</p><p class=MsoNormal>all that is desired is simply compiling without the Cmake dependency.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Conceptually it should not be this hard.<span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>“</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes, it should not be this hard for Cmake to have an *<b>OPTION</b>* to use relative paths, maybe ?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://pedro-vicente.net/">http://pedro-vicente.net/</a></p></div></body></html>