Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-06 Thread Matthew LeRoy
On Dec 5, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: We began using CMake a few months ago for a couple of small cross- platform

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-06 Thread Michael Jackson
On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: On Dec 5, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: We began using CMake a few

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-06 Thread Matthew LeRoy
On 2011-12-03 14:54-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2011-12-03 12:42-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2011-12-02 19:33- Matthew LeRoy wrote: Assuming we want to just put the install tree in version control somewhere, and have ProjectB's list files reference the install tree out of

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-06 Thread David Cole
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Matthew LeRoy mle...@minitab.com wrote: On 2011-12-03 14:54-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2011-12-03 12:42-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2011-12-02 19:33- Matthew LeRoy wrote: Assuming we want to just put the install tree in version control somewhere,

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-05 Thread Matthew LeRoy
On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: We began using CMake a few months ago for a couple of small cross-platform projects, and we're still learning all the ins and outs and capabilities CMake has to offer, as well as how to

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Jackson
On Dec 5, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: We began using CMake a few months ago for a couple of small cross-platform projects, and we're still learning all the ins and outs and

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-04 Thread Michael Jackson
On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Matthew LeRoy wrote: We began using CMake a few months ago for a couple of small cross-platform projects, and we're still learning all the ins and outs and capabilities CMake has to offer, as well as how to get the most out of CMake by using it The Right Way.

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Matt: On 2011-12-02 19:33- Matthew LeRoy wrote: Thanks, Alan, I'll give some of that a shot and see what we can come up with. Learning about another project that uses CMake (PLplot) that we can look at for examples and inspiration helps, too. From what I can tell, the stuff you

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-12-03 12:42-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2011-12-02 19:33- Matthew LeRoy wrote: Assuming we want to just put the install tree in version control somewhere, and have ProjectB's list files reference the install tree out of version control, is writing a Find module the best way to

Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew LeRoy
to do that? Matt -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:13 PM To: Matthew LeRoy Cc: 'cmake@cmake.org' Subject: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: [CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries Importance

[CMake] Best practices/preferred methods for linking external libraries

2011-12-01 Thread Matthew LeRoy
We began using CMake a few months ago for a couple of small cross-platform projects, and we're still learning all the ins and outs and capabilities CMake has to offer, as well as how to get the most out of CMake by using it The Right Way. Right now, we're trying to figure out how to link to