[CMake] Somehow making life easier with wxWidgets ...

[Jorgen Bodde]

Hi All,

I have succesfully converted my source to use the latest find script.
I have to say, GOD JOB! I wasn't expecting this level of flexibilityof
the script. I didn't have to add anything whiel configuring. Simply
configure and go!

Thanks again for this effort. I will still keep thinking about making
it easier for future releases  but I am very happy that it works as
expected.

With regards,
- Jorgen

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Jorgen Bodde <jorgen.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Werner,
>
>  sorry I missed your original post. It is worth looking at to see if we
>  can produce some kind of CMake friendly script. I'm however not sure
>  what the best way is to solve this the most user friendly way to only
>  let the user determine which config he would like for his generated
>  project. I am not sure how wxconfig now handles multiple builds, if a
>  user builds all projects in the wxWidgets project file (DLL / static,
>  debug / release or unicode / ansi) I don't know how to let the user
>  decide which build to use without hacking the CMakeLists.txt provided
>  with the source that needs to be built.
>
>  Regards,
>  - Jorgen
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Werner Smekal <smekal at iap.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>  > Hi Jorgen,
>  >
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  > I wanted to do exactly that. Create a small executable that could
>  >  > function as a wx-config.exe for wxWidgets on Windows where CMAKE could
>  >  > benefit from the variables being set, and then kind of making the find
>  >  > process more integrated with the wxWidgets distribution. I would
>  >  > create it as rigorous as possible by scanning for the library files
>  >  > needed, registry keys and what not just to reliably find the
>  >  > installation.
>  >
>  >
>  > There is some tool like that you have in mind already
>  >
>  >  http://wxconfig.googlepages.com/
>  >
>  >  it will not have cmake compatible output maybe, but maybe you could
>  >  start from there?
>  >  >
>  >
>  > > But it seems I will have to do some homework first. My need for this
>  >  > script came from the fact I believed that the findwxWidgets.cmake was
>  >  > outdated, but it is not. My apologies again.
>  >
>  >
>  > I also think that the cmake module works quite fine, altough have have
>  >  to set many options/definitions at the cmake configuration stage if you
>  >  don't have standard build of wxwidgets - which is quite logically, since
>  >  how should it find out automatically how I set up wxWidgets.
>  >
>  >  Regards,
>  >  Werner
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Dr. Werner Smekal
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