On Nov 26, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Javier Gonzalez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robert Dailey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My application currently has a dependency on the APR library, which
> uses linux make scripts to build it. Since I'm using CMake for my
own
> project, how can I setup APR to build using CMake? The APR libraries
> must be built before my application. I'm not sure how to handle this
> situation. It would be nice to convert APR to use CMake via some
tool
> of some sort.
Check out the EXECUTE_PROCESS command in the documentation. That
should
work.
Is this the recommended way to handle this issue? What would you
guys recommend? Should I provide precompiled binaries for all
platforms in version control so I don't have to worry about making
CMake build APR, or would you recommend complex CMake logic to
handle calling EXECUTE_PROCESS() for APR on all platforms? Either
way you look at it, it looks like a nightmare.
Well, it depends on how much time and energy you have to devote to
APR. If APR isn't too complicated and you are quick with CMake you can
always create a CMake Build system for APR. I ended up doing this for
my own project dependencies (HDF5, expat, tiff) but then again I had
the luxury of the time to do that.
I think EXECUTE_PROCESS is about your only choice. Precompiled
binaries work if you can manage the various build configurations that
your users will need.
I just took a look at APR (http://apr.apache.org) and I don't think
creating a CMake based build system is probably in your time
horizon.. :-)
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Mike Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer Dayton, Ohio
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