[CMake] Re: FindSDL.cmake and mingw / msys

[PA Galmes]

On 4/1/07, E. Wing <ewmailing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe this could be implemented in a major release of CMake, thus
> > developers would be aware that changes are required to their scripts.
> > As soon as it is advertized enought, it's ok.
>
> I'm more inclined to leave the current behavior, and when SDL 1.3
> finally rolls around, try a fresh start then since we'll most likely
> need a new script for that anyway.



Yes, that's ok with me.

> Currenly, under Windows, when I click on the configure button in CMAKE, it
> > says:


> - It says, "I did not found SDLMAIN_INCLUDE, SDLMAIN_LIBRARY,
> > SDLIMAGE_INCLUDE, SDLIMAGE_LIBRARY"
> > - I set those variables,
> > - click on configure one more time.
> >
>
> So I need more details about how CMake does this. I don't understand
> how CMake determines which ones to nag you about. The nags I get are
> different than yours.


I can't give you the explanation about it. Do you know someone
who could explain it to us?

> And what about calling that variable SDL_LIBRARY_DIR (with
> for example the value "c:\My project\lib") and deducing from
> that all the other variables.



> No, deduction can fail. There may be a case where SDLmain and SDL are
> located in different directories. There is also the case that the
> libraries are not named what we expect. Thus, each one requires their
> own field to handle these cases, as they do now. And this is the
> reason for the complexity.


Well, I leave it to you, as long as, once all the "required" variables are
set,
things compile.

Regards,
-- 
Pierre-André Galmes
Free Software consultant
StarXpert - www.starxpert.fr
6, rue Eugène Varlin - 75010 Paris
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