[CMake] ExternalProject question

[Nicholas Braden]

You will need to look at their building documentation to find how to
set those preferences when building with CMake.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:47 PM, vadtec <vadtec at vadtec.net> wrote:
> I'm using ExternalProject to build external dependencies. curl provides a
> cmake build process, but I cannot figure out how to pass options such as:
>
> --disable-manual --disable-shared --without-librtmp --without-libidn
> --without-winidn --without-winssl --disable-ldap --disable-ldaps
> --enable-ipv6 --enable-threaded-resolver --enable-cookies --enable-static
>
> to the build process. The only way I've found to get it to work is to use a
> custom CONFIGURE_COMMAND and related steps. I would prefer to use the cmake
> build process.
>
> This is what I have that works:
>
> ExternalProject_Add(
>     CURL
>     DEPENDS OPENSSL ZLIB OPENSSH
>     SOURCE_DIR ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/curl-7.43.0/
>     PREFIX ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/curl-7.43.0/
>     DOWNLOAD_COMMAND tar xvjf ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/curl-7.43.0.tar.bz2
>     DOWNLOAD_DIR ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/
>     CONFIGURE_COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/curl-7.43.0/ &&
> ./configure --prefix=${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/binary/linux/
> --disable-manual --disable-shared --without-librtmp --without-libidn
> --without-winidn --without-winssl --disable-ldap --disable-ldaps
> --enable-ipv6 --enable-threaded-resolver --enable-cookies --enable-static
>     BUILD_COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/curl-7.43.0/ && make
>     INSTALL_COMMAND ""
> )
>
> I want to use this, so that cmake can do its thing while still giving me the
> specific variant of curl I want:
>
> ExternalProject_Add(
>     CURL
>     DEPENDS OPENSSL ZLIB OPENSSH
>     SOURCE_DIR ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/curl-7.43.0/
>     PREFIX ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/curl-7.43.0/
>     DOWNLOAD_COMMAND tar xvjf ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/curl-7.43.0.tar.bz2
>     DOWNLOAD_DIR ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/
>     CMAKE_ARGS
>         -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/binary/linux/
>         -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}
>         -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=${CMAKE_C_FLAGS}
>         -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}
>         -DCMAKE_MOUDLE_PATH=${MAKE_MOUDLE_PATH}
>     INSTALL_COMMAND ""
> )
>
> ________________________________
> Vadtec
> vadtec at vadtec.net
>
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