[CMake] Question regarding External Project add and VTK

Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin jchris.fillionr at kitware.com
Mon Jun 9 03:00:37 EDT 2014


Hi Jameson,

Glad to know you sorted out the issue.

By any chance, do you think you could share a link to a github repository
with your project ? That would allow us to review how you integrated
"ExternalProjectDependency" and improve it.

Thanks
Jc


On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM, jmerkow <jmerkow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, So I've converted my project to a super build system with
> ExternalProjectDependency.  I ended up going through and re writing most of
> my project (most of it was written while I was learning CMake and was
> pretty
> ugly). It is extremely useful.  It seems that superbuilds are very popular,
> it seems like a great addition to the general CMake project.
> If it gets popular enough, it may be worth it to replace the
> ExternalProject_Add function when referring to the normal project, since
> its
> not truly a external project.
>
> Anyway, once you get the hang of the double loop, it works fantastic
>
> Jameson
>
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