[CMake] When should I use add_subdirectory and when ExternalProject?

Michael Wild themiwi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 10:34:41 EST 2013


In a SuperBuild, all projects, even your own, are built by one large
"super-build" project that contains a series of ExternalProject_Add calls.
That's all there is to it.


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ansis Māliņš <ansis.malins at gmail.com> wrote:

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