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/*============================================================================
CMake - Cross Platform Makefile Generator
Copyright 2000-2009 Kitware, Inc., Insight Software Consortium
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Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD License (the "License");
see accompanying file Copyright.txt for details.
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This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the License for more information.
============================================================================*/
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#ifndef cmTryCompileCommand_h
#define cmTryCompileCommand_h
#include "cmCoreTryCompile.h"
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/** \class cmTryCompileCommand
* \brief Specifies where to install some files
*
* cmTryCompileCommand is used to test if soucre code can be compiled
*/
class cmTryCompileCommand : public cmCoreTryCompile
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{
public:
/**
* This is a virtual constructor for the command.
*/
virtual cmCommand* Clone()
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{
return new cmTryCompileCommand;
}
/**
* This is called when the command is first encountered in
* the CMakeLists.txt file.
*/
virtual bool InitialPass(std::vector<std::string> const& args,
cmExecutionStatus &status);
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/**
* The name of the command as specified in CMakeList.txt.
*/
virtual const char* GetName() { return "try_compile";}
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/**
* Succinct documentation.
*/
virtual const char* GetTerseDocumentation()
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{
return "Try building some code.";
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}
/**
* More documentation. */
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virtual const char* GetFullDocumentation()
{
return
" try_compile(RESULT_VAR <bindir> <srcdir>\n"
" <projectName> [targetName] [CMAKE_FLAGS flags...]\n"
" [OUTPUT_VARIABLE <var>])\n"
"Try building a project. In this form, srcdir should contain a "
"complete CMake project with a CMakeLists.txt file and all sources. "
"The bindir and srcdir will not be deleted after this command is run. "
"Specify targetName to build a specific target instead of the 'all' or "
"'ALL_BUILD' target."
"\n"
" try_compile(RESULT_VAR <bindir> <srcfile>\n"
" [CMAKE_FLAGS flags...]\n"
" [COMPILE_DEFINITIONS flags...]\n"
" [OUTPUT_VARIABLE <var>]\n"
" [COPY_FILE <fileName>])\n"
"Try building a source file into an executable. "
"In this form the user need only supply a source file that defines "
"a 'main'. "
"CMake will create a CMakeLists.txt file to build the source "
"as an executable. "
"Specify COPY_FILE to get a copy of the linked executable at the "
"given fileName."
"\n"
"In this version all files in bindir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp "
"will be cleaned automatically. For debugging, --debug-trycompile can "
"be passed to cmake to avoid this clean. However, multiple sequential "
"try_compile operations reuse this single output directory. If you "
"use --debug-trycompile, you can only debug one try_compile call at a "
"time. The recommended procedure is to configure with cmake all the "
"way through once, then delete the cache entry associated with "
"the try_compile call of interest, and then re-run cmake again with "
"--debug-trycompile."
"\n"
"Some extra flags that can be included are, "
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"INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES, LINK_DIRECTORIES, and LINK_LIBRARIES. "
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"COMPILE_DEFINITIONS are -Ddefinition that will be passed to the "
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"compile line. "
"try_compile creates a CMakeList.txt "
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"file on the fly that looks like this:\n"
" add_definitions( <expanded COMPILE_DEFINITIONS from calling "
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"cmake>)\n"
" include_directories(${INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES})\n"
" link_directories(${LINK_DIRECTORIES})\n"
" add_executable(cmTryCompileExec sources)\n"
" target_link_libraries(cmTryCompileExec ${LINK_LIBRARIES})\n"
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"In both versions of the command, "
"if OUTPUT_VARIABLE is specified, then the "
"output from the build process is stored in the given variable. "
"The success or failure of the try_compile, i.e. TRUE or FALSE "
"respectively, is returned in "
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"RESULT_VAR. CMAKE_FLAGS can be used to pass -DVAR:TYPE=VALUE flags "
"to the cmake that is run during the build. "
"Set variable CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_CONFIGURATION to choose a build "
"configuration."
;
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}
cmTypeMacro(cmTryCompileCommand, cmCoreTryCompile);
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};
#endif