[CMake] suggested or best-practice for independent subproject library

[Mateusz Loskot]

(I'm picking up a few months old thread, which seems to have not received any
answer)


Jeet Sukumaran wrote
> I have a project that includes (and is dependent on) some independent 
> sub-projects, e.g.
> 
>      "project1"/
>          CMakeLists.txt
>          src/
>              library1/
>                  CMakeLists.txt
>                  include/
>                      
> <source files ...>
>                  src/
>                      
> <source files ...>
>              main/
>                  CMakeLists.txt
>                  
> <source files ...>
> "library1" is actually maintained as a git submodule, and is included in a
> number of entirely different project, (e.g.  "project2", "project3",
> etc.).
> Within each of these main or super projects like "project1", I want to
> just
> build the library1 and statically link programs to it as needed (i.e., 
> without installing library1's headers and binaries to the installation
> destination).

Jeet,

Have you managed to solve this task of combining use of git submodule
and exported targets without installation?

Anyone, is it even possible?

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz  Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net



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