I have the following CMake structure:
CMakelists.txt
toolchain.cmake
folder1
----CMakelists.txt
folder2
----CMakelists.txt
etc..
My first-level CMakelists.txt file includes the other subdirectories. Now I want to build my code for a different target.
The manual way is:
1.
mkdir hostBuild
cd hostBuild
cmake ..
make
2.
mkdir crossBuild
cd crossBuild
cmake .. --DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=toolchain.cmake
make
Is it possible that this process can run automatically?
For example, I just have to run cmake .
at my first level.
Is something like this is possible?
No. The recommendation would be to just put your manual steps into a shell script.
CMake can only handle one compiler/make environment at a time (if you switch the compiler you need a different binary output directory).
Especially a toolchain file that does contain SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME ...)
does change the whole outcome of the configuration/generation process.
For details on what CMake does see: CMake: In which Order are Files parsed (Cache, Toolchain, …)?
And you could make use of some CMake command line options in your shell script:
if [ ! -d hostBuild ]; then
cmake -E make_directory hostBuild
cmake -E chdir hostBuild cmake ..
fi
cmake --build hostBuild
...