[SOLVED] CMake coloring errors and warnings

Issue

Is there a way how to produce a colorful output from gcc which is called from Makefile generated by cmake? It would make debugging application a lot easier.

Solution

Do you want colourful output from cmake binary? For that I don't know any solution.

CMake can generate Makefiles that provide verbose (and colourful) information about the build process. This can be enabled in the following way:

SET(CMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE ON)
# And optionally
SET(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE ON)

If you want to have the gcc output colourised, then have a look at colorgcc perl script. Having it installed try something like this:

CC=/usr/bin/colorgcc cmake .....

Or use the newer solution proposed in another answer by gfour - the gccfilter

Answered By - Anonymous

Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (WPSolving Admin)