<div dir="ltr">"SDL installation"? But there is no such thing. At least not on Windows. ... Right?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Michael Wild <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:themiwi@gmail.com" target="_blank">themiwi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>In that case, clearly ExternalProject_Add. It is an external dependency, and should be treated as such. If a users have SDL already installed on their system, they're going to hate you for shipping it AGAIN in your package, possibly even wrecking their original installation of SDL. By providing download information in the ExternalProject_Add call, you can make things even fully automated for your user.<br>
<br></div>Michael<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ansis Māliņš <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ansis.malins@gmail.com" target="_blank">ansis.malins@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><div dir="ltr">If I have a dependency (e.g. SDL2) that seems to work with add_subdirectory just fine, should I still use ExternalProject_Add instead? Given both ways work, what should I prefer? What are the tradeoffs?</div>
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