Christopher Harvey wrote:
Hi cmake maintainers,
I'm wondering if there was a reason why the windows configure interface
outputs message commands as individual dialogs instead of inside some
sort of in-program terminal (that the user wouldn't be able to type
into). It seems to me that it would make the cmake experience more
consistent across configures.

Try the new qt based cmake-gui, it does not do that.


I could *try* to write a patch that does this...but I wanted to see if
there was interest in it at all first.

The CMakeSetup will be deprecated in the next release, so no need to fix it.
The second idea is to have an internal cmake variable that is a list of
directories that cmake modules could use to look for libraries and
include files. I'm starting to notice that every single FindXXX.cmake
uses commands like:
...

Why not define these paths internally and turn these long commands into :


FIND_PATH(SDL_INCLUDE_DIR SDL.h
  HINTS
  $ENV{SDLDIR}
  PATH_SUFFIXES include
  PATHS
  ${CMAKE_COMMON_INCLUDE_PATHS}
)

That sounds good. A lot of the modules need a bit of work.... Ideally you should not have to list many PATHS at all. CMake does look in some common places automatically. Many of the Find modules have not been update to reflect those changes that were made to cmake.

-Bill
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