Hi, I wanted to point out a small project I have been working on to make it easier to build Avogadro on all platforms. It uses a new feature in CMake called external projects, where CMake can download source tarballs, and can build several projects in one. In working on this it was of course necessary to build Open Babel and several of its dependencies. This is where I hit some hard coded paths for MSVC, I would like to fix them but I don't want to break anyone's set up.
https://github.com/cryos/avogadro-squared git clone --recursive git://github.com/cryos/avogadro-squared.git The above will get you a copy of what I have labelled Avogadro-Squared for now. I will be adding the Python dependencies at some point in the future, but wanted to start small. Here each target actually creates a build directory, and then tells the dependent targets where the previous ones places binaries, include files etc. It has the distinct advantage of building everything with the compiler being used, for the architecture targeted. Would an option such as openbabel_USE_PREBUILT_WINDOWS_BINARIES, or similar, defaulting to ON to maintain current behavior be reasonable? The xtc stuff was failing for example, as I am not building whatever library that is, or linking to it. I would also like to build inchi as part of this process, either as another external package or part of Open Babel's build. If others are interested, it could be used as a way to remove the prebuilt DLLs from OpenBabel's source tree without bundling in third party codes. For projects like Avogadro it should make it much easier for new developers to get up and running while using several external libraries. Marcus -- Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D. R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc. (518) 881-4937 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
