# Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-Clause License. See accompanying # file Copyright.txt or https://cmake.org/licensing for details. #.rst: # TestBigEndian # ------------- # # Define macro to determine endian type # # Check if the system is big endian or little endian # # :: # # TEST_BIG_ENDIAN(VARIABLE) # VARIABLE - variable to store the result to macro(TEST_BIG_ENDIAN VARIABLE) if(NOT DEFINED HAVE_${VARIABLE}) message(STATUS "Check if the system is big endian") message(STATUS "Searching 16 bit integer") if(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_LOADED) set(_test_language "C") elseif(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LOADED) set(_test_language "CXX") else() message(FATAL_ERROR "TEST_BIG_ENDIAN needs either C or CXX language enabled") endif() include(CheckTypeSize) CHECK_TYPE_SIZE("unsigned short" CMAKE_SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_SHORT LANGUAGE ${_test_language}) if(CMAKE_SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_SHORT EQUAL 2) message(STATUS "Using unsigned short") set(CMAKE_16BIT_TYPE "unsigned short") else() CHECK_TYPE_SIZE("unsigned int" CMAKE_SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_INT LANGUAGE ${_test_language}) if(CMAKE_SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_INT) message(STATUS "Using unsigned int") set(CMAKE_16BIT_TYPE "unsigned int") else() CHECK_TYPE_SIZE("unsigned long" CMAKE_SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG LANGUAGE ${_test_language}) if(CMAKE_SIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG) message(STATUS "Using unsigned long") set(CMAKE_16BIT_TYPE "unsigned long") else() message(FATAL_ERROR "no suitable type found") endif() endif() endif() if(_test_language STREQUAL "CXX") set(_test_file "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}/CMakeTmp/TestEndianess.cpp") else() set(_test_file "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}/CMakeTmp/TestEndianess.c") endif() configure_file("${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/TestEndianess.c.in" ${_test_file} @ONLY) file(READ ${_test_file} TEST_ENDIANESS_FILE_CONTENT) try_compile(HAVE_${VARIABLE} "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" ${_test_file} OUTPUT_VARIABLE OUTPUT COPY_FILE "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}/TestEndianess.bin" ) if(HAVE_${VARIABLE}) file(STRINGS "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}/TestEndianess.bin" CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_LE LIMIT_COUNT 1 REGEX "THIS IS LITTLE ENDIAN") file(STRINGS "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}/TestEndianess.bin" CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_BE LIMIT_COUNT 1 REGEX "THIS IS BIG ENDIAN") # on mac, if there are universal binaries built both will be true # return the result depending on the machine on which cmake runs if(CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_BE AND CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_LE) if(CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR MATCHES powerpc) set(CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_BE TRUE) set(CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_LE FALSE) else() set(CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_BE FALSE) set(CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_LE TRUE) endif() message(STATUS "TEST_BIG_ENDIAN found different results, consider setting CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES or CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES to one or no architecture !") endif() if(CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_LE) set(${VARIABLE} 0 CACHE INTERNAL "Result of TEST_BIG_ENDIAN" FORCE) message(STATUS "Check if the system is big endian - little endian") endif() if(CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_BE) set(${VARIABLE} 1 CACHE INTERNAL "Result of TEST_BIG_ENDIAN" FORCE) message(STATUS "Check if the system is big endian - big endian") endif() if(NOT CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_BE AND NOT CMAKE_TEST_ENDIANESS_STRINGS_LE) message(SEND_ERROR "TEST_BIG_ENDIAN found no result!") endif() file(APPEND ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}/CMakeOutput.log "Determining if the system is big endian passed with the following output:\n${OUTPUT}\nTestEndianess.c:\n${TEST_ENDIANESS_FILE_CONTENT}\n\n") else() message(STATUS "Check if the system is big endian - failed") file(APPEND ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}/CMakeError.log "Determining if the system is big endian failed with the following output:\n${OUTPUT}\nTestEndianess.c:\n${TEST_ENDIANESS_FILE_CONTENT}\n\n") set(${VARIABLE}) endif() endif() endmacro()