From 1d79059897ae35cc5af87a3afb0d5c05949ab2b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chriseth <chris@ethereum.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:42:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Convert license to character array.

---
 CMakeLists.txt               | 6 +++++-
 cmake/templates/license.h.in | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2dbc521de..e0eef4d27 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ include(EthExecutableHelper)
 include(EthUtils)
 
 # Create license.h from LICENSE.txt and template
-file(READ ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE.txt LICENSE_TEXT)
+# Converting to char array is required due to MSVC's string size limit.
+file(READ ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE.txt LICENSE_TEXT HEX)
+string(REGEX MATCHALL ".." LICENSE_TEXT "${LICENSE_TEXT}")
+string(REGEX REPLACE ";" ",\t0x" LICENSE_TEXT "${LICENSE_TEXT}")
+
 configure_file("${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/templates/license.h.in" "license.h")
 
 include(EthOptions)
diff --git a/cmake/templates/license.h.in b/cmake/templates/license.h.in
index 48801347e..b254e8715 100644
--- a/cmake/templates/license.h.in
+++ b/cmake/templates/license.h.in
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 #pragma once
 
-static char const* licenseText = R"(@LICENSE_TEXT@)";
+static char licenseText[] = {
+	0x@LICENSE_TEXT@
+};