[CMake] hear hear

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 12 December 2011, Johannes Zarl wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6. December 2011, 17:27:47, Daniel Dekkers wrote:
> > On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> > > I think if the CMake community took a vote we could probably come up
> > > with an "Exemplar" Find*.cmake file that is good for someone trying to
> > > develop a new one.
> > 
> > Yes please.
> > And I think in general that is true. Of course it is more interesting and
> > often more urgent to spend time on "exotic" problems. But there are these
> > basics that are missing in the documentation. Like,.. this works in 99%
> > of the cases, we, CMake, advise you to do this. If you don't, you are
> > making life hard on yourself and you are more or less on your own.
> > Something like:
> > 1) a single executable
> > 2) a single executable linked to a lib built from source
> > 3) different executables using the same lib built from source
> > 4) a single executable linked to a binary lib (with the aid of a find
> > module) ...
> > n) multiple executables linked to multiple libraries (linked to
> > third-party libraries), some static, some dynamic, some with their own
> > CMake builds, some without, on different platforms. Auch. n+1) making
> > anything work with Xcode
> 
> I would like that, too.
> 
> Also, it would be nice if the example would include a *Config.cmake (and
> *Version.cmake) file. 

Here is an example which shows just that:
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeexamples/repository/revisions/master/show/buildsystem/HowToInstallALibrary

It's not "final" yet, i.e. I'll work on improving it in the next weeks.

Alex