ENH: add COPY_FILE argument to TRY_COMPILE, so the compiled executable can

be used e.g. for getting strings out of it.

Alex

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmTryCompileCommand.h b/Source/cmTryCompileCommand.h
index 38230d4..22dfd5e 100644
--- a/Source/cmTryCompileCommand.h
+++ b/Source/cmTryCompileCommand.h
@@ -60,20 +60,22 @@ public:
     {
     return
       "  TRY_COMPILE(RESULT_VAR bindir srcdir\n"
-      "              projectName <targetname> <CMAKE_FLAGS <Flags>>\n"
-      "              <OUTPUT_VARIABLE var>)\n"
+      "              projectName <targetname> [CMAKE_FLAGS <Flags>]\n"
+      "              [OUTPUT_VARIABLE var])\n"
       "Try compiling a program.  In this form, srcdir should contain a complete "
       "CMake project with a CMakeLists.txt file and all sources. The bindir and "
       "srcdir will not be deleted after this command is run. "
       "If <target name> is specified then build just that target "
       "otherwise the all or ALL_BUILD target is built.\n"
       "  TRY_COMPILE(RESULT_VAR bindir srcfile\n"
-      "              <CMAKE_FLAGS <Flags>>\n"
-      "              <COMPILE_DEFINITIONS <flags> ...>\n"
-      "              <OUTPUT_VARIABLE var>)\n"
+      "              [CMAKE_FLAGS <Flags>]\n"
+      "              [COMPILE_DEFINITIONS <flags> ...]\n"
+      "              [OUTPUT_VARIABLE var]\n"
+      "              [COPY_FILE <filename> )\n"
       "Try compiling a srcfile.  In this case, the user need only supply a "
       "source file.  CMake will create the appropriate CMakeLists.txt file "
-      "to build the source. "
+      "to build the source. If COPY_FILE is used, the compiled file will be"
+      "copied to the given file.\n"
       "In this version all files in bindir/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp, "
       "will be cleaned automatically, for debugging a --debug-trycompile can "
       "be passed to cmake to avoid the clean. Some extra flags that "