cmGlobalNinjaGenerator: Add helper to compute absolute paths for build.ninja

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
index 6034434e2c..09cbaec999 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.cxx
@@ -1160,6 +1160,15 @@ std::string const& cmGlobalNinjaGenerator::ConvertToNinjaPath(
     .first->second;
 }
 
+std::string cmGlobalNinjaGenerator::ConvertToNinjaAbsPath(
+  std::string path) const
+{
+#ifdef _WIN32
+  std::replace(path.begin(), path.end(), '/', '\\');
+#endif
+  return path;
+}
+
 void cmGlobalNinjaGenerator::AddAdditionalCleanFile(std::string fileName,
                                                     const std::string& config)
 {
diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.h b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.h
index 7a3674e76f..bb4ce2bf20 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.h
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalNinjaGenerator.h
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ public:
   }
 
   std::string const& ConvertToNinjaPath(const std::string& path) const;
+  std::string ConvertToNinjaAbsPath(std::string path) const;
 
   struct MapToNinjaPathImpl
   {
diff --git a/Source/cmNinjaTargetGenerator.h b/Source/cmNinjaTargetGenerator.h
index daf7817620..4b4cf8d361 100644
--- a/Source/cmNinjaTargetGenerator.h
+++ b/Source/cmNinjaTargetGenerator.h
@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ protected:
     return this->GetGlobalGenerator()->MapToNinjaPath();
   }
 
+  std::string ConvertToNinjaAbsPath(std::string path) const
+  {
+    return this->GetGlobalGenerator()->ConvertToNinjaAbsPath(std::move(path));
+  }
+
   /// @return the list of link dependency for the given target @a target.
   cmNinjaDeps ComputeLinkDeps(const std::string& linkLanguage,
                               const std::string& config,