Cmake error: Invalid escape sequence \U

Question

While running my OpenCL code in VC++ 10 by using CMake I am getting the following error:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:6 (set): Syntax error in cmake code at
C:/Users/Shreedhar/Desktop/testCL/CMakeLists.txt:6

when parsing string
C:\Users\Shreedhar\Desktop\test_CL\CMakeLists
Invalid escape sequence \U

Answer 1

Use forward slashes / in your paths

C:/Users/Shreedhar/Desktop/test_CL/CMakeLists

Answer 2

If you are reading user input like environment variables then you'll need to do this by character replacement feature of string method.

string(REPLACE "\\" "/" outputVar ${_inputVar})