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Hans Johnson89540922020-11-06 15:35:51 -06001#
2# This function will prevent in-source builds
3function(AssureOutOfSourceBuilds)
4 # make sure the user doesn't play dirty with symlinks
5 get_filename_component(srcdir "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}" REALPATH)
6 get_filename_component(bindir "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" REALPATH)
7
8 # disallow in-source builds
9 if("${srcdir}" STREQUAL "${bindir}")
10 message("######################################################")
11 message("# jsoncpp should not be configured & built in the jsoncpp source directory")
12 message("# You must run cmake in a build directory.")
13 message("# For example:")
14 message("# mkdir jsoncpp-Sandbox ; cd jsoncpp-sandbox")
15 message("# git clone https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp.git # or download & unpack the source tarball")
16 message("# mkdir jsoncpp-build")
17 message("# this will create the following directory structure")
18 message("#")
19 message("# jsoncpp-Sandbox")
20 message("# +--jsoncpp")
21 message("# +--jsoncpp-build")
22 message("#")
23 message("# Then you can proceed to configure and build")
24 message("# by using the following commands")
25 message("#")
26 message("# cd jsoncpp-build")
27 message("# cmake ../jsoncpp # or ccmake, or cmake-gui ")
28 message("# make")
29 message("#")
30 message("# NOTE: Given that you already tried to make an in-source build")
31 message("# CMake have already created several files & directories")
32 message("# in your source tree. run 'git status' to find them and")
33 message("# remove them by doing:")
34 message("#")
35 message("# cd jsoncpp-Sandbox/jsoncpp")
36 message("# git clean -n -d")
37 message("# git clean -f -d")
38 message("# git checkout --")
39 message("#")
40 message("######################################################")
41 message(FATAL_ERROR "Quitting configuration")
42 endif()
43endfunction()
44
45AssureOutOfSourceBuilds()