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Asked: 2026-05-25T10:25:13+00:00

I am wanting to create CMakeLists.txt files that are more specifically named such as

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I am wanting to create CMakeLists.txt files that are more specifically named such as “CMakeLists_nightly.txt”, “CMakeLists_weekly.txt” and so forth. The reason I want to do this is to cut down on the folder hierarchy clutter of my project. I could easily put each of these files in their own folder with the postfix I showed above but I do not want to do this.

Can I tell cmake to take a CMakeLists.txt file by another name? I have seen this question asked before on another forum (http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-August/016036.html) but it was back in 2007 and the answer was no. Does the current version of CMake provide this capability?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Not really, but you can emulate this by putting CMakeLists.txt in separate directories, e.g. continous/CMakeLists.txt and nightly/CMakeLists.txt. Use INCLUDE to include the appropriate scripts for each of the build configs.

    Consider if this really is the right approach – completely separating the nightly and continuous script is a really bad idea as that will lead to duplication and a very bug prone build setup.

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