On 2011-01-24 17:02-0000 Chris Lawrence wrote:
Hi,
I've recently been looking into using CMake with one of my projects at work.
I've recently run into a problem where the Makefile, CMake
generates will not run on my build system unless I install the cmake libraries.
Just to clarify, my development machine (where CMake is installed) and my build
machine are separate. My project requires the use of the
generated makefile, without the dependence of having cmake installed on that
machine.
Is there any flags available for CMake, to generate a gmake file that can be
run independently from the cmake libraries?
To the CMake developers here: should the answer be in the FAQ?
My quick check could not find it there.
To Chris:
This subject is probably more appropriate for the [email protected] list
where the question has been answered a number of times already, but
I will attempt to answer it here.
In short, the answer is no. If you run "make VERBOSE=1" you will see
cmake is invoked for at least progress reports and dependency
analysis. Also, if you want your build to be cross-platform at all,
as a build system designer you will be using the cmake -E commands to
do cross-platform commands such as the following:
Usage: cmake -E [command] [arguments ...]
Available commands:
chdir dir cmd [args]... - run command in a given directory
rename oldname newname - rename a file or directory (on one volume)
copy file destination - copy file to destination (either file or
directory)
copy_if_different in-file out-file - copy file if input has changed
copy_directory source destination - copy directory 'source' content to
directory 'destination'
compare_files file1 file2 - check if file1 is same as file2
echo [string]... - displays arguments as text
echo_append [string]... - displays arguments as text but no new line
environment - display the current environment
make_directory dir - create a directory
md5sum file1 [...] - compute md5sum of files
remove_directory dir - remove a directory and its contents
remove [-f] file1 file2 ... - remove the file(s), use -f to force it
tar [cxt][vfz][cvfj] file.tar file/dir1 file/dir2 ... - create a tar archive
time command [args] ... - run command and return elapsed time
touch file - touch a file.
touch_nocreate file - touch a file but do not create it.
build build_dir - build the project in build_dir.
create_symlink old new - create a symbolic link new -> old
So even if you could get rid of the progress reports and dependency
analysis, then you severely limit the cross-platform usefulness of
your package by not being able to use these commands at make time.
Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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