[CMake] Install from a source directory with ExternalProject

[Cedric Doucet]

Hello Nicholas,

thank you for your answer.
Actually, it's not my own directory and I have no choice.
I want to download source files from there :
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/streams00/c++/
I know how to do it with FILE(DOWNLOAD ...) but I would like to know if there is a way to do it with ExternalProject_Add.

Cédric



----- Mail original -----
> De: "Nicholas Braden" <nicholas11braden at gmail.com>
> À: "Cedric Doucet" <cedric.doucet at inria.fr>
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Envoyé: Vendredi 26 Février 2016 15:40:26
> Objet: Re: [CMake] Install from a source directory with ExternalProject
> 
> I'm not sure how you would download a directory without it being in
> some sort of archive. If you just want to use an existing directory,
> use the SOURCE_DIR option instead.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Cedric Doucet <cedric.doucet at inria.fr>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to know if it's possible to download and install an external
> > project from a source directory instead of a tarball.
> > I tried to do it with ExternalProject_Add function but it tries to
> > uncompress source files and then fails.
> >
> > Cédric
> >
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