Thanks very much, Magnus! I will try it out.
(your tag line made me laugh)

Cheers,
Aaron


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 06:24:44PM -0500, Aaron Boxer wrote:
> > I have cmake two projects, with project 2 added as a git submodule in
> > project 1.
> >
> > I would like to build project 2 from project 1.
> >
> > How can I do this? I tried add_subdirectory, but this is just for adding
> > source directories. I want to use the project 2 cmake files to build it.
>
> Have a look at ExternalProject
> (http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.12/cmake.html#module:ExternalProject
> )
> it's very likely what you are looking for.
>
> /M
>
>
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