Hello, These are the user docs for ExternalProject_Add:
http://cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#module:ExternalProject Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you off :-) On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgqui...@elpauer.org> wrote: > Hello, > > CMake ( http://www.cmake.org ) has something called > ExternalProject_Add which provides a similar integration with 3rdparty > build systems, something like Trace + mkProject : > > http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=blob;f=Modules/ExternalProject.cmake;hb=HEAD > > So far CMake is the best cross-platform build-system I have seen. We > are using it at work for Windows-Linux cross-platform development and > works very well. It creates Visual C++ solutions and projects on > Windows from project (you could say "metaproject") files called > CMakeLists.txt (see http://www.elpauer.org/stuff/learning_cmake.pdf - > page 10, top slide). > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Garrett Serack <garre...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> Well, the tools that I built over the last year require a lot of manual >> hand-holding, so I'm really planning on rewriting them from scratch again to >> make them quite a bit smarter. >> >> The last generation of tools is on my project page at the >> http://gstoolkit.codeplex.com ... but unless you know how to use them, they >> are probably not very useful in their current state. >> >> I'll be filling in more planning details over the next week or so. >> >> >> Garrett Serack | Open Source Software Developer | Microsoft Corporation >> I don't make the software you use; I make the software you use better on >> Windows. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Philip Allison [mailto:mangobr...@googlemail.com] >> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:03 AM >> To: Garrett Serack >> Cc: coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Conversion to/from UNIX-style build systems? >> >> On 9 April 2010 17:36, Garrett Serack <garre...@microsoft.com> wrote: >>> So part of CoApp is the evolution of some seriously cool magic that I've >>> been working on for the last couple of years. >>> >>> Tools that can take absolutely any existing build process and turn it >>> into Visual Studio project files. I've done this on about 100 projects >>> already, and it's pretty damn cool >>> >> >> ^^ This. :D This is the sort of thing I'm interested in, because getting >> this right is - IMHO - of critical importance if packaging for CoApp, and >> keeping those packages up to date, is going to be a realistic prospect. >> (Not to say that there aren't a lot of other, equally important problems to >> solve, but this is one of the first ones that needs solving to really prove >> feasibility.) >> >> When do we get to take a look? ;) >> >> Regards, >> Phil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers >> Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > > -- > Pau Garcia i Quiles > http://www.elpauer.org > (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
