On Sunday, June 05, 2011 11:21:43 PM Eric Noulard wrote: > 2011/6/4 Alexander Neundorf <neund...@kde.org>: > > Hi, > > > > KDE is getting more modular, so instead of a few huge "modules" there > > will be much more independent libraries. > > We'll try to make all those libraries install proper FooConfig.cmake > > files. Currently most of these libraries install already pkgconfig > > pc-files. This means they (would) have to install two such files, one > > for pkgconfig and one for cmake. > > > > Proposal: I'd like to add a command line switch to cmake, so you can call > > it like > > cmake --find_package Foo --Dmode=COMPILE --Dtoolchain=GNU > > and it will > > * try to find Foo only in config-mode > > * if found, it will check that it has been found via FOO_FOUND > > * if so, it will check that for FOO_INCLUDES and FOO_LIBRARIES > > * create the command line arguments for the compiler from that > > * print "-I/opt/foo/include" to stdout > > > > This would make these installed Config-files usefull also for non-cmake, > > simple Makefile-based projects. > > > > Opinions ? > > I think I'll start working on this in the next days. > > I think that adding more and more command line options to the "cmake" > command may make it bloated. > > Wouldn't be possible to add separate cmake scripts to the cmake > distribution with simplified command line args which e.g. > > cmake-config --cflags Foo > which would transparently call some cmake scripts like that > cmake --Dmode=COMPILE -Dmodule=Foo -P cmake-config-script.cmake
You mean "separate scipts", not "separate cmake scripts", right ? Under Unix this could be shell scripts, under Windows probably batch files. I don't know what the other cmake developers think of this. Under Unix it would also be possible to create a symlink "cmake-config" to cmake and check for that. But that also doesn't work under Windows AFAIK :-/ Alex _______________________________________________ cmake-developers mailing list cmake-developers@cmake.org http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
