> On May 22, 2018, at 10:13 AM, Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote: > > On 05/22/2018 06:27 AM, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote: >> There's more that we (as CMake community) could do to make it easier for non- >> cmake projects to add a config file... > [snip] >> not be much more work for the maintainer as pkg-config files. > > There is a proposal here: > > https://mwoehlke.github.io/cps/ > > for a new package specification format to supersede both CMake > package configuration files and pkg-config .pc files with something > sufficient for both use cases. The "History" section documents > the limitations of both existing approaches and why neither is > sufficient on its own.
Or pkg-config could be extended to fix the issues. A `Replaces:` field could be added to support resolving c++11 and c++14 language flags(although changing c++ languages version is a very bad idea and can cause ABI breakage, which why it should be a property of the toolchain). Also, the link line could support passing the full path to the library rather than using `-L` and `-l` flags. > > Both pkg-config and CMake's find_package command could use the > proposed `.cps` files. Projects would only have to provide one > kind of spec file that is buildsystem agnostic. In the Boost Cmake Modules, we support generating both pkg-config and cmake config files automatically from the cmake targets: http://bcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/BCMExport.html#bcm-auto-export http://bcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/BCMPkgConfig.html#bcm-auto-pkgconfig Paul -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
