[CMake] CMake library installations and pkg-config

[nick at appletonaudio.com]

On 2016-08-31 23:32, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 31.08.2016, 16:22, "Nick Appleton" <nick at appletonaudio.com>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I’ve been recently doing a bit of work for an open source project 
>> trying to extend it’s support for CMake. I’ve been trying to get CMake 
>> to be able to replicate most of the functionality which can be 
>> achieved with the existing autoconf-based infrastructure (and have had 
>> pretty good success) but am struggling to figure out how to get CMake 
>> to generate pkg-config files on unix-ey systems. I’ve done quite a lot 
>> of searching, but have not found anything which provides a good 
>> solution for our use case.
> 
> Do you consider contributing to
> https://api.kde.org/ecm/module/ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile.html ?
> 

Hi Konstantin,

Thanks for the reply and pointing me at the ECM repository.

I was hoping that this would be something that CMake would be able to do 
without requiring an external package - particularly since CMake 
provides support for finding packages on the system with pkg-config 
files. I think adding documentation to our project which says "if you 
want to install portaudio into the host system in a way compatible with 
autotools-based projects, you will need to get this other repository" 
seems a little bit much to me.

Cheers,

Nick