Does APP_SHORT_COMMANDS work with CMake?

[aadithyabk]

ndk-build allows passing APP_SHORT_COMMANDS through gradle dsl but I can't find any documentation regarding the CMake equivalent or if the same works with CMake as well.

Just using APP_SHORT_COMMANDS=true as an argument for CMake in gradle results in an error because it is interpreted incorrectly. -DAPP_SHORT_COMMANDS does work but it can mean a custom preprocessor definition to CMake as well and I don't know if it has any effect. Neither me nor my teammates have a windows machine to test it completely and I felt it is easier to ask you folks.

[DanAlbert]

No, it doesn't.

I'll have to dig around later and see if I can figure out the way to do this in CMake. It will be part of CMake proper rather than part of our interface, if that helps your search.

[alexcohn]

I believe this answer can help. With gradle, you can pass

arguments "-DCMAKE_NINJA_FORCE_RESPONSE_FILE=1", "-DCMAKE_C_USE_RESPONSE_FILE_FOR_OBJECTS=1", "-DCMAKE_CXX_USE_RESPONSE_FILE_FOR_OBJECTS=1", "-DCMAKE_C_RESPONSE_FILE_LINK_FLAG=@", "-DCMAKE_CXX_RESPONSE_FILE_LINK_FLAG=@"

but maybe it's easier to keep them in the top CMakeLists.txt.

[aadithyabk]

Ah! Thanks for the link.

[DanAlbert]

This is probably worth us mentioning in the externalNativeBuild docs. I'll leave this open to track that.

[DanAlbert]

I haven't heard of this being a problem in a very long time. Maybe CMake is automatically enabling this when needed? I generally want to avoid repeating the CMake docs in our own docs, but if this is still relevant lmk and I can reopen.