[cmake-developers] Improved support for using cmake-based libraries in non-cmake projects

[Nicolas Desprès]

Hi,

Sounds great to me.  Just as needed as all these foo-config programs
librairies install.

-Nico

On Saturday, June 4, 2011, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> KDE is getting more modular, so instead of a few huge "modules" there will be
> much more independent libraries.
> We'll try to make all those libraries install proper FooConfig.cmake files.
> Currently most of these libraries install already pkgconfig pc-files.
> This means they (would) have to install two such files, one for pkgconfig and
> one for cmake.
>
> Proposal: I'd like to add a command line switch to cmake, so you can call it
> like
> cmake --find_package Foo --Dmode=COMPILE --Dtoolchain=GNU
> and it will
> * try to find Foo only in config-mode
> * if found, it will check that it has been found via FOO_FOUND
> * if so, it will check that for FOO_INCLUDES and FOO_LIBRARIES
> * create the command line arguments for the compiler from that
> * print "-I/opt/foo/include" to stdout
>
> This would make these installed Config-files usefull also for non-cmake,
> simple Makefile-based projects.
>
> Opinions ?
> I think I'll start working on this in the next days.
>
> Alex
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Nicolas Desprès