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

[Benjamin Eikel]

Am Dienstag, 11. September 2012 um 21:44:29 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:
> On Thursday 30 August 2012, Benjamin Eikel wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 um 18:53:51 schrieb Brad King:
> > > On 08/29/2012 05:43 AM, Benjamin Eikel wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Great, thanks for your work!
> > > 
> > > Please proceed through steps 5 and 6 here:
> > >  http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Module_Maintainers#New_Maintainer
> > > 
> > > You're welcome to work on other modules (like SDL) as well, but
> > > please bring up changes for discussion on the list with the
> > > current maintainer of each.
> > > 
> > > > "glew.h" does not contain any version information.
> > > 
> > > It looks like there are version "macros" that evaluate to runtime
> > > tests.  How is one supposed to do any preprocessor conditionals
> > > based on the version when using GLEW?
> > 
> > I do not know of any preprocessor tests. There is a possiblity at runtime
> > to call "glewGetString(GLEW_VERSION)", but I think it would be too
> > resource intensive to compile and run an application in the find module.
> 
> Any progress here ?

I did not plan to include a test that runs an application to determine the 
version. Do you think that this should be done?

> 
> Alex