On Thursday 27 October 2011 18:34:33 Michael Wild wrote: > On 10/27/2011 05:46 PM, Tomasz Grobelny wrote: > > I have several subprojects (eg. libA and libB) and I want to make a > > parent project that would group both of them. The problem is that libB > > depends on > > > > what is installed by libA. I have come up with two ideas: > > 1. Configure libA and libB as ExternalProjects - the build process works > > but when I open the parent project in Visual Studio I do not see the > > source and header files. > > > > 2. Use add_subdirectory command - this make the project look good in VS, > > but doesn't build well as libB build is started before installing libA. > > How do I solve this problem? Is it possible to either add source files in > > (1) or add dependency on install of libA to libB in (2)? Or maybe some > > other option? > > The only way of getting libA installed before libB is built is indeed > using ExternalProject. > > However, in your case I would prefer to restructure libA such that it's > build tree resembles the installation tree closely enough, such that you > can build libB against it. E.g. if you need header files to be located > in a specific structure which is different from that in the source tree, > use either configure_file(... COPYONLY) commands, or if you don't want > that, you can configure_file(...) wrapper headers with the same names > which include the actual files through absolute paths. > So the idea is to simulate install tree inside build tree. Makes sense, I'll try that. Thanks. -- Regards, Tomasz Grobelny --
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