[CMake] FTP client in CMake?

[Robert Dailey]

Thanks David. Apparently I was looking in the wrong place, I assumed it
would be a cmake option :)

Happy New Year!!

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Robert Dailey


On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:11 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> file(DOWNLOAD ...) works with "ftp:" urls.
>
> For example, the following script works for me (with CMake 2.8.6):
>
>   get_filename_component(dir "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE}" PATH)
>
>   file(DOWNLOAD
>     "ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/benchmark.ps.Z"
>     "${dir}/benchmark.ps.Z"
>     )
>
> I found a small file on the first server mentioned by google when
> searching for "public anonymous ftp server"
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think I've seen a way to use CMake to download files from an FTP
>> server. For certain third party libraries, I'd like to store them on an FTP
>> server and use CMAKE_COMMAND to invoke CMake.exe from within a cmake script
>> to download the files from that FTP server.
>>
>> Is it possible to add this functionality? Could anyone recommend a
>> workaround?
>>
>> ---------
>> Robert Dailey
>>
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