On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Michael Jackson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.jackson@bluequartz.net">mike.jackson@bluequartz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Nov 26, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:<br>
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Javier Gonzalez <<a href="mailto:javierggt@yahoo.com" target="_blank">javierggt@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
Robert Dailey wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
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> My application currently has a dependency on the APR library, which<br>
> uses linux make scripts to build it. Since I'm using CMake for my own<br>
> project, how can I setup APR to build using CMake? The APR libraries<br>
> must be built before my application. I'm not sure how to handle this<br>
> situation. It would be nice to convert APR to use CMake via some tool<br>
> of some sort.<br>
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Check out the EXECUTE_PROCESS command in the documentation. That should<br>
work.<br>
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Is this the recommended way to handle this issue? What would you guys recommend? Should I provide precompiled binaries for all platforms in version control so I don't have to worry about making CMake build APR, or would you recommend complex CMake logic to handle calling EXECUTE_PROCESS() for APR on all platforms? Either way you look at it, it looks like a nightmare.<br>
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Well, it depends on how much time and energy you have to devote to APR. If APR isn't too complicated and you are quick with CMake you can always create a CMake Build system for APR. I ended up doing this for my own project dependencies (HDF5, expat, tiff) but then again I had the luxury of the time to do that.<br>
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I think EXECUTE_PROCESS is about your only choice. Precompiled binaries work if you can manage the various build configurations that your users will need.<br>
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I just took a look at APR (<a href="http://apr.apache.org" target="_blank">http://apr.apache.org</a>) and I don't think creating a CMake based build system is probably in your time horizon.. :-)</blockquote></div><br>
Are you saying creating CMakeLists files for APR would be too time consuming? If so, why do you say this?<br>