[CMake] Examples creating exported Makefiles and correct library link order

[J Decker]

Okay really sorry - CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME isn't relavent for
things using makefile... should just use CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE...

but also I guess a lot of projects don't support that either

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:11 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote a C script that I configure_file on that writes a cmakelists
> module (might also be a makefile)
>
> (I think) The cmake way would be to define PROJECT_LIBRARIES;
> PROJECT_INCLUDE_DIR; PROJECT_LIBRARY_DIR; PROJECT_INCLUDE_DIR... all
> of which can be built from knowing CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
>
> but you have to recreate by hand where you installed things to to
> append to the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to get the appropriate things.
> Also I think you can get the current directory that the makefile is
> in, so you could build makefile references from whereever it happens
> to be at the time that way.
>
> CMAKE_INSTALL_CONFIG_NAME might also be of use for distributing
> debug/release libraries... ./include/Project, ./lb/Project/Debug,
> ./lib/Project/Release ,....
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Lori Pritchett-Sheats <lpritch at lanl.gov> wrote:
>> My project needs to create and install a Makefile that other client projects
>> could import to link against our project. T
>>
>> I have a simple template file that generates an exported Makefile using the
>> configure_file command, however I'm struggling with how to create a variable
>> that contains all the libraries our project builds and the correct ordering
>> for linking. I noticed in the CMakeCache.txt file there are variables
>> {target name}_LIB_DEPS  with the dependencies listed, but I can't find any
>> documentation on these variables or find a way to access all the library
>> target names to even read these variables.
>>
>> I've looked at the Trilinos build system to see how they do this but it's
>> not straightforward. Does anyone know of a smaller project that creates a
>> exported Makefile that generates correct library link orders?
>>
>>
>>
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