The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-06/recipe-02, including a Fortran/C example. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.10 (and higher), and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows with MSYS Makefiles.
In this recipe, we will revisit the previous example, and will again generate print_info.c from the template print_info.c.in. However, this time, we will imagine that the CMake function configure_file() has not been invented yet, and will emulate it with a Python script. The goal of this recipe is to learn how we can generate source code at configure time by using a now familiar example. Of course, we will probably favor configure_file() for a real project, but when faced with the challenge of generating sources using Python at configure time, we will...
