Question

I have two questions relative to CMake

1. Assume that we have a variable ${MY_CURRENT_DIR} that contains the path of a directory that contains several subdirectories : mydir1, mydir2 and mydir3. I want to detect these subdirectories and put their names into ${SUBDIRS} (not the complete path of these directories, only their name). How to do that automatically ?

2. Assume that ${SUBDIRS} contains “mydir1 mydir2 mydir3”. How to replace

   ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(mydir1)
   ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(mydir2)
   ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(mydir3)
   

by a loop over ${SUBDIRS}?

Answer 1

1. Use this macro:

   MACRO(SUBDIRLIST result curdir)
     FILE(GLOB children RELATIVE ${curdir} ${curdir}/*)
     SET(dirlist "")
     FOREACH(child ${children})
       IF(IS_DIRECTORY ${curdir}/${child})
         LIST(APPEND dirlist ${child})
       ENDIF()
     ENDFOREACH()
     SET(${result} ${dirlist})
   ENDMACRO()
   

   Example:

   SUBDIRLIST(SUBDIRS ${MY_CURRENT_DIR})
   

2. Use foreach:

   FOREACH(subdir ${SUBDIRS})
     ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(${subdir})
   ENDFOREACH()