Is it possible to make a menu within a catkin build?

asked 2015-05-22 22:05:08 -0500

Nap
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I'ld like to be able choose my build options during the catkin_make process. I know it can be done using a bash script, but I'm wondering if it can be done within catkin?

answered 2015-05-22 23:09:59 -0500

ahendrix

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You can do this by adding cmake configuration variables to your cmakelists, like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72...

Note that these won't (and shouldn't) prompt you for input at build time; instead, you can set the value of these variables using the -D flag to catkin_make (or cmake):

catkin_make -DMY_VARIABLE=42

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Thanks, I'm already doing that. But I wanted to make it a little easier so the users wouldn't need to remember/type the variables.

Nap ( 2015-05-23 02:26:24 -0500 )edit

Making the build system interactive for every run is probably more annoying than useful. I haven't tried the -i option to cmake, but perhaps it's appropriate in this scenario? http://www.cmake.org/runningcmake/