<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Well, sounds like a reasonably sized C++ project :-)<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">On a more serious note: Are you aware of so called Superbuilds? This is a term that is used quite often in the context of large CMake based dependency builds. Speaking from personal experience, I've found that Superbuild projects do scale quite well and managing a large set of (external) thirdparty dependencies is usually not as bad as it might look.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Greetings,<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Kai Wolf<br>
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<a href="http://kai-wolf.me/">http://kai-wolf.me/</a><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-02-20 15:41 GMT+01:00 Boudewijn Rempt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boud@valdyas.org" target="_blank">boud@valdyas.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 14:59:10 CET Kai Wolf wrote:<br>
> Nice,<br>
><br>
> I've found a smaller issue though. I've just submitted a PR on GitHub.<br>
> The reddit discussion is also interesting. A common theme in the typical<br>
> "CMake is bad" discussions is not the lack of documentation, but a good<br>
> tutorial on how to *actually accomplish things* using CMake in a correct<br>
</span>> and scalable manner.<br>
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I've used cmake since 2006, and I am completely in a fog when it comes to how<br>
I should update my project (which has a couple of hundred cmakelists.txt<br>
files, thirty external cmake projects and oodles of libraries and plugins) to<br>
something more modern...<br>
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> As a shameless self-plug: I am currently writing a book[1] on exact this<br>
> topic and really hope, I'll be able to release it by summer 2018 :-(<br>
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</span>Well, put me down for three copies!<br>
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