The idea is that CMake has possibility to contact with package managers
for download necessary libraries.
If “find_package” can’t find a library, it need to call apt-get install.
Example:
auto_downland(apt-get)
find_package (Boost COMPONENTS system thread REQUIRED)
06.10.2015 15:33, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Марсель Галимуллин wrote:
I'm student of the University LETI and as a masrer's thesis I want to develop
an extension to CMake. It is expected that this extension will automatically
download missing library if instruction such as «find_package (Boost COMPONENTS
system thread REQUIRED)» can not find the package. Could you give me some
advices where to begin and which the best direction to design, develop and
whether to do it?
If you need that for some special purpose, go for it, but it's probably not a
behavior most users would expect, and it's definitely a behavior that would
have to be disabled in any software installed by a package management system.
(The package management system would want to be in control of what gets
downloaded.)
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Kind regards,
Marsel Galimullin.
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