Interested in hearing everyone's thoughts on this idea of mine. Right now I have several third party libraries: openssl, boost, libpng, zlib, etc. List goes on. I need to support these libraries on at least 3 different platforms: ARM android, x86 linux, x86 windows. It's a real pain in the rear to build each of these libraries a total of 3 times (once per platform). It makes upgrades painful.
So I was thinking: If I set up each third party library to build from source as a normal target with the rest of my targets, this would get me the libraries for each third party lib "for free". Basically, they would all build the same way no matter what platform I'm on. I can move to other platforms or architectures in the future with no extra effort. The downside, of course, is that they build along with my normal targets. Which means doing "ninja clean" will clean them, when I really don't need to, and it will make build times get longer. Any thoughts on this idea? Are there any other downsides? Is this the best way to have library support across platforms? -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
