On Monday 19 December 2011, Benjamin Eikel wrote: > Hello Alexander, > > Am Montag, 12. Dezember 2011, 21:51:54 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: > > Here is an example which shows just that: > > https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeexamples/repository/revisions/ma > > st er/show/buildsystem/HowToInstallALibrary > > > > It's not "final" yet, i.e. I'll work on improving it in the next weeks. > > thank you very much for this example project. It helped me a lot to > understand especially the EXPORT usage. > > I know that you wrote that the project is not finished yet, but allow me to > ask a question: > > In the "example/CMakeLists.txt": Is line 5, which calls > "include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)", really needed? I think if > BAR_FOUND would be checked, it should be called.
Line 6 is commented out because it relies on a feature in cmake 2.8.3, but when I committed the example I made it depend only on 2.6.4. Does that answer your question ? > I would greatly appreciate it if you could extend the example, or provide a > second example, that uses an external library. So for example a library Foo > depending on LibXml2. Some functionality of Foo depends on whether LibXml2 > was found or not. Therefore it creates "Foo_Config.h" with > "configure_file" defining something like LIB_XML2. I would like to see how > this could be correctly installed and found by an application using Foo. > Would it be simply adding the config header file to the set of exported > header files? I'd put that information into the installed FooConfig.cmake, something like: set(FOO_HAS_LIBXML2_FEATURES TRUE) Alex -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
