[CMake] Cross Compilation & Source file generators

Hendrik Sattler post at hendrik-sattler.de
Sat May 21 02:26:59 EDT 2016


Hi,

Did you read the Wiki page about cross compiling with CMake? CMake can already restrict searching for libraries to certain directories when cross compiling.

HS


Am 21. Mai 2016 04:13:38 MESZ, schrieb Walter Gray <chrysalisx at gmail.com>:
>A small addendum - The way I am currently solving this problem is by
>replacing the version of protoc in the library folder for android with
>one
>that works on the host machine, but this is really not the best since
>it
>means that the library distribution is tied to the host AND the target.
>
>Thinking in terms of concepts, I think I would want a find_package that
>understood the difference between finding a package for executing and
>finding a package for linking, but that'd be a pretty fundamental
>change.
>
>On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 7:02 PM Walter Gray <chrysalisx at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I've got a project with a number of target platforms, including some
>that
>> I have to cross-compile to such as android, that uses protobuf. If
>you're
>> unfamiliar, the crux of the issue is that there is both a library,
>> libprotobuf, and an 'compiler', protoc, that takes .proto files and
>> generates a .h/.cc pair that are then included in the project.
>>
>> When cross compiling, want to use the libprotobuf that was compiled
>on
>> andriod, but the protoc that was compiled for my host environment.
>How
>> could this be achieved?
>>
>> Currently, my build machine has several different directories where I
>> store the external libraries that have been compiled for the various
>> platforms/compilers that we support (Libraries-arm32, Libraries-x64,
>> Libraries-x64-vc14, ect).
>>
>> Solutions that require modifying protobuf's -config.cmake file are
>> welcome, I've already submitted several PR's improving it. I'd like
>to
>> establish what the best practice for this kind of situation is as I
>have
>> the same issue with Flatbuffers.
>>
>> On a slightly unrelated note, is there some way to write something
>like
>> the AUTOUIC system without modifying cmake itself? It would be lovely
>if
>> all I had to do was include the .proto file in the source file list.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Walter
>>
>
>
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