On 10.06.2014 19:48, jmerkow wrote:
Basically, the scenario I'm using this is when libraries are in some unknown
location, but the location can be set during the configure step.
In our case we have a number of external libraries that aren't (and
shouldn't be) installed, so there not going to be in any of the standard
locations (I.e they won't be in /usr/bin etc). We provide precompiled
versions of these libraries for convenience, or the user can compile them.
In the case where they use our precompiled libs, we have a standard
directory structure for the externals. I.e,
externals/bin/lib-name/sub-dir-structure/. The externals directory can be
anywhere, and we provide FindXxx.cmake files to locate them (given the
location of the external dir). So, with this, as long as the external dir
location is known (and the follow the structure), we can find the libraries
easily. We do it this way so the FindXxx.cmake files can be edited easily if
we want to update them, or use fallback locations for some of the libraries.
If you are the author of those libraries maybe you could have them
install/provide project configuration files[1] (FooConfig.cmake) instead
of writing FindFoo.cmake find modules.
These can be generated by CMake (or other build systems ... or even
handwritten if need be) for build directories and/or installations and
for them the find_package() signature that you initially tried would work.
The existing find modules with CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH should work too though
I'd try to keep it out of the project files and specify it manually with
-D on the cmake command line or set it in the build system's environment.
Nils
[1]
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/manual/cmake-packages.7.html#config-file-packages
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