Take a look at this project: https://github.com/ruslo/hunter
On 07-Apr-15 21:59, Steven Stallion wrote:
All,
I'm currently working on a fairly large project that requires a number
of external tools be installed. I've been playing with the idea of
having CMake download and install these packages prior to building the
project. I have something that works using a combination of custom
modules and external projects, but I'm not quite satisfied.
After trolling through the find_package documentation, I'm tempted to
write a module that will download and install a CPack package hosted
on an HTTP server. This is somewhat similar to the approach that
neovim has taken, however I'd like to use the user package registry
rather than CMAKE_CURRENT_BUILD_DIR; having some persistence would
make life a bit better with multiple clones.
I'm surprised that CMake doesn't have support for something like this
already - does this ring a bell to anyone? If not, I'm tempted to put
together an ExternalPackage module that would encapsulate this
behavior, which should dovetail nicely with find_package and friends.
Thoughts?
Steve
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