[CMake] Is this the proper way to define a package config?

Robert Dailey rcdailey.lists at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 14:11:56 EDT 2014


Can anyone help me with this? It would be much appreciated. Thank you.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Robert Dailey
<rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a local package of boost built on Windows. It is always
> relative to the root of my project at a consistent structure and
> location. I wanted to define an import target for this and thought it
> might be best to define a BoostConfig.cmake package config file at the
> root of the boost lib directory. Is this the right approach? The code
> is below.
>
> Note that I do not have this working just yet because I don't know how
> to properly setup the interface link libraries. Could use some
> guidance here too... thanks.
>
> add_library( Boost STATIC IMPORTED GLOBAL )
>
> file( GLOB boost_debug_libs ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/lib/win32/debug/*.lib )
> file( GLOB boost_release_libs
> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/lib/win32/release/*.lib )
>
> set_target_properties( Boost PROPERTIES
>     IMPORTED_LOCATION_DEBUG lib/win32/debug
>     IMPORTED_LOCATION_RELEASE lib/win32/release
>     INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES include
>     INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES
>         $<$<CONFIG:Debug>:${boost_debug_libs}>
>         $<$<CONFIG:Release>:${boost_release_libs}>
> )
>
> set( Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS include )
> set( Boost_LIBRARIES Boost )


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