[IGSTK-Developers] CMake scripting capabilities?

[Patrick Cheng]

Hi Kevin,

CMake has support for task execution too, but might not as powerful as 
Ant.

cmake -P script.file

This will execute the script file without generating the make files or 
VS project files.

cmake has a 'EXEC_PROGRAM' command
EXEC_PROGRAM(Executable [directory in which to run] 

                         [ARGS <arguments to executable>]
                         [OUTPUT_VARIABLE <var>]
                         [RETURN_VALUE <var>])

I don't know if this is enough for your task, but the cmake scripting 
language is easier to read and write than xml.

cmake also has an option to run command:
cmake -E chdir dir cmd [args]....
This is less flexible as using cmake script.

2cents.

Patrick

Kevin Gary wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Does CMake support any kind of task execution ala Ant?
> 
> We have a tool at this point that exports IGSTK state machines
> to a W3C draft standard called SCXML, and then transforms
> this XML into a simulated execution of state machines
> (using Apache Common SCXML project) and the animations
> demonstrated in December. We are currently testing by
> parsing IGSTK log files and replaying the state machine
> transitions in our simulator.
> 
> Currently this is a multistage process with pieces written
> in C++, Java, and XSL. To put it together we use Ant.
> If we eventually incorporate this tool into an IGSTK
> tools extension, it would (I think) be better to automate
> the process using CMake if it supports it. Or we could
> stick with Ant if nobody thinks it a big deal...
> 
> K2
>