[CMake] ExternalProject_Add and Boost

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Jun 18 14:17:38 EDT 2012


On 6/18/2012 2:03 PM, Knox, Kent wrote:
> That is an interesting approach; if this 'superbuild' cmake project
> downloaded and built all the external dependencies first, then my
> project could find those dependencies with the appropriate find
> module?  I suppose that the 'superbuild' could set the BOOST_ROOT
> variable (or other appropriate variables) for my real project.  I'll
> play around with this idea when I get


Usually, you make your project just another build in the superbuild. 
Then you can send down all the cmake variables required to make your 
project see all of the projects it needs to find.


http://www.kitware.com/products/html/BuildingExternalProjectsWithCMake2.8.html

-Bill


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