I want to remove specific libraries from a CMake variable.
Suppose LIB contains the value of the variables "A;B;C", I know use set to add the comtent of another variable "D" like this
set(LIB ${LIB};D) However I tried to remove "C" from LIB like following
unset(LIB C) This code does not work. Does anyone know good way to do this?
That's not how unset works. In your example, unset(LIB C) unsets both variables LIB and C. It does not remove the C part from LIB.
As all variables are internally strings in CMake, you should use string(REPLACE). In your case
string(REPLACE C "" LIBwithoutC LIB) Replaces all occurrences of C by an empty string and stores the result in LIBwithoutC. You might want to fine-tune this to remove the extra semicolon.
string(REPLACE "C;" "" LIBwithoutC "${LIB}") works. Using "${LIB}" can treat these variable as string. cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2016-January/062594.htmlThere are at least three ways you probably already know:
run cmake-gui (or make edit_cache) to open the "cache editor", i.e. the GUI for cmake the "Holzhammer" method: simply remove the complete cache or build directory and start again and delete the entries you don't want there open CMakeCache.txt in a text editor and edit it manually There's another way to do which you maybe did not know yet. Additionally to "-D" (define variable) cmake has also "-U" (undefine variable), which you can use to remove entries from the cache. It goes like that: $ cmake -U*QT*.
