CMake preload script for cache

build, cmake

Solution

From the CMake manual:

The given file should be a CMake script containing SET commands that use the CACHE option, not a cache-format file.

So your `myfile.cmake` needs to look something like this:

set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "C:/install/mylib" CACHE PATH "")

Problem

I fire cmake with the -C mysettings.cmake. The content of myfile.cmake is ``` set(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "C:/install/mylib" STRING) ``` Everything is generated but it seems the -C mysettings.cmake variable is not set. It is still installed in the default directory. Cmake prints the message "loading initial cache file ../../script/cmake/mysettings.cmake" without any error. The full call: ``` cmake -C ../../script/cmake/mysettings.cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" ../../source/mylib ``` Is there something wrong with my syntax?

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