[CMake] CMake library installations and pkg-config

[Konstantin Tokarev]

01.09.2016, 08:34, "nick at appletonaudio.com" <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.

It's a usual practice to copy ECM modules into your project, they mostly don't depend on each other. For example, ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile is completely stand-alone.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick

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Regards,
Konstantin