How to use all *.c files in a directory with the Cmake build system?

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user256537 picture user256537 · Jan 21, 2010 · Viewed 76.8k times · Source

I want to find all .c files under a directory and add them all to SRC files to compile in cmake. How can I do this in CMakeList.txt.

for regular makefiles I can create 

SPECIFIED_SRC_FILE  = $(foreach d,$(SPECIFIED_SRC_DIRS),$(wildcard $(addprefix $(d)/*,*.c)))

but I couldn't get how to do something like this in CMakeList.txt.

Answer

Dat Chu picture Dat Chu · Jul 29, 2010

How about the good old globbing?

FILE(GLOB MyCSources *.c)
ADD_EXECUTABLE(MyExecutable ${MyCSources})

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