[CMake] Cross Compilation & Source file generators

[Hendrik Sattler]

Hi,

Did you read the Wiki page about cross compiling with CMake? CMake can already restrict searching for libraries to certain directories when cross compiling.

HS


Am 21. Mai 2016 04:13:38 MESZ, schrieb Walter Gray <chrysalisx at gmail.com>:
>A small addendum - The way I am currently solving this problem is by
>replacing the version of protoc in the library folder for android with
>one
>that works on the host machine, but this is really not the best since
>it
>means that the library distribution is tied to the host AND the target.
>
>Thinking in terms of concepts, I think I would want a find_package that
>understood the difference between finding a package for executing and
>finding a package for linking, but that'd be a pretty fundamental
>change.
>
>On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 7:02 PM Walter Gray <chrysalisx at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I've got a project with a number of target platforms, including some
>that
>> I have to cross-compile to such as android, that uses protobuf. If
>you're
>> unfamiliar, the crux of the issue is that there is both a library,
>> libprotobuf, and an 'compiler', protoc, that takes .proto files and
>> generates a .h/.cc pair that are then included in the project.
>>
>> When cross compiling, want to use the libprotobuf that was compiled
>on
>> andriod, but the protoc that was compiled for my host environment.
>How
>> could this be achieved?
>>
>> Currently, my build machine has several different directories where I
>> store the external libraries that have been compiled for the various
>> platforms/compilers that we support (Libraries-arm32, Libraries-x64,
>> Libraries-x64-vc14, ect).
>>
>> Solutions that require modifying protobuf's -config.cmake file are
>> welcome, I've already submitted several PR's improving it. I'd like
>to
>> establish what the best practice for this kind of situation is as I
>have
>> the same issue with Flatbuffers.
>>
>> On a slightly unrelated note, is there some way to write something
>like
>> the AUTOUIC system without modifying cmake itself? It would be lovely
>if
>> all I had to do was include the .proto file in the source file list.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Walter
>>
>
>
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