[cmake-developers] New find module: FindGLEW.cmake

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 August 2012, Benjamin Eikel wrote:
> > Dear CMake developers,
> > 
> > I have written a find module for the OpenGL Extension Wrangler (GLEW) [1]
> > library (see attachment). I tried to follow all the instructions that I
> > have found. I am willing to maintain that module. Unfortunately, the
> > header file "glew.h" does not contain any version information. I could
> 
> Cool :-)
> From looking a bit around on the web, it seems other alternative names for
> the glew library are "glew" and "glew32s"
> Maybe you can add those two names to the find_library() call ?
> 
> > extract version information using PkgConfig, but I have in mind that using
> > PkgConfig is discouraged. I am looking forward to your feedback.
> 
> If possible, it'd be nice to do that without pkg-config, that's right.
> glew.h on my system contains several version-related macros, isn't any of
> these usable ?

Why? My guess would be to check whatever works, i.e. test pkg-config first and 
if that doesn't give anything suitable then do the normal scanning.

Or did you mean "do not _require_ pkg-config"?

Eike
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