How to split strings across multiple lines in CMake?

Question

I usually have a policy in my project, to never create lines in text files that exceed a line length of 80, so they are easily editable in all kinds of editors (you know the

Answer 1

It's still a little verbose, but if the 80 char limit really bugs you then you could repeatedly append to the same variable:

set(MYPROJ_VERSION_MAJOR "1")
set(MYPROJ_VERSION_MINOR "0")
set(MYPROJ_VERSION_PATCH "0")
set(MYPROJ_VERSION_EXTRA "rc1")
set(MYPROJ_VERSION "${MYPROJ_VERSION_MAJOR}.")
set(MYPROJ_VERSION "${MYPROJ_VERSION}${MYPROJ_VERSION_MINOR}.")
set(MYPROJ_VERSION "${MYPROJ_VERSION}${MYPROJ_VERSION_PATCH}-")
set(MYPROJ_VERSION "${MYPROJ_VERSION}${MYPROJ_VERSION_EXTRA}")
message(STATUS "version: ${MYPROJ_VERSION}")

Gives output:

$ cmake  ~/project/tmp
-- version: 1.0.0-rc1
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/rsanderson/build/temp