[cmake-developers] libuv in cmake (was: daemon-mode meeting last Tuesday)

[Daniel Pfeifer]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 06/24/2016 04:12 AM, Tobias Hunger wrote:
>>> Please think about adding libuv earlier. As Brad wrote before, libuv
>>> could replace some #ifdef code that we currently have
>>
>> Feel free to merge it at your own pace. I'll just use your copy then:-)
>>
>> Currently I just link to an external version of said library and have
>> not yet tried to figure out what the policy is wrt. 3rd party code in
>> cmake. Stephen suggested that we would need to include a copy into the
>> cmake repository and hinted at a script that keeps these copies
>> updated.
>
> I can take care of the details of getting libuv enabled as a third-party
> package within CMake.  I've just been waiting for time to do it and an
> initial use case.  Daniel, if you are interested in this I once started
> a prototype to convert cmSystemTools::RunSingleCommand over to libuv
> that you could take over finishing.  Once you have it working I can look
> at making libuv available in `master`.

I currently have some open topics that I want to finish first.