On 2018-01-04 05:09+0300 Dave Milter wrote:
Hello,
If there is some libfoo that I want to use in my project,
and this libfoo has it's own CMakeLists.txt I have 3 options to deal
with such external dependency:
a) Treat it like every other external dependency and write cmake code
like FindLibFoo.cmake to find libfoo on file system.
b)Include this project as git submodule and use ExternalProject to
invoke `cmake` and `cmake --build`
c)Include this project as git submodule and use add_subdirectory(libfoo)
Or
d) Use a config-file package approach (the preferred modern
alternative to the find-file package approach used in (a)). See
<https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-packages.7.html>
for details concerning config-file packages. Of course, this option
assumes that external software's CMake-based build system has been
developed to the point of creating a config-file package. However, if
it has a CMake-based build system already that is just lacking such a
package, it is straightforward to implement such a package (from my
experience doing that for several different projects and also from
the above URL).
Alan
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software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
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