Appending to CMAKE_C_FLAGS

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TobiSF picture TobiSF · Apr 27, 2015 · Viewed 33.5k times · Source

I'm using CMake for a project that comes in two versions, one of which requires -lglapi and the other does not.

So far the lines we used look like that: 

SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "-O3 -xSSE3 -restrict -lpthread -lX11 -ldrm")
SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-O3 -xSSE3 -restrict -lpthread -lX11 -ldrm")

I added an if statement in my CMakeList.txt exactly after those lines: 

if(SINGLE_MODE)
    SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS ${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} " -lglapi")
    SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} " -lglapi")
endif(SINGLE_MODE)

The SINGLE_MODE variable is defined a little up. When I use the message command to display the content of the flag variables it looks alright:

-O3 -xSSE3 -restrict -lpthread -lX11 -ldrm -lglapi

But when I start compiling I am running into a compile error. Using the verbose mode I realized that in the compiler call it looks like that: 

-O3 -xSSE3 -restrict -lpthread -lX11 -ldrm; -lglapi

I.e. somehow a semicolon got added before adding the -lglapi to the list.

Did anyone here encounter a similar issue and knows a way to fix this issue? I've googled quite a while and studied the CMake manual but couldn't see what I did wrong here.

Thanks, Tobias

Answer

jpo38 picture jpo38 · Apr 27, 2015

Try to do this instead:

if(SINGLE_MODE)
    SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -lglapi")
    SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -lglapi")
endif(SINGLE_MODE)

Then, you are sure you append -lglapi to the existing ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} string. Else, looks like something like a CMake list is being created.

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