[CMake] ExternalProject_Add examples

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hi,

OpenSSL is very tricky on Windows. You'll find my solution (it requires a
two-stage process) at http://gitorious.org/winstng


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I've recently created a number of super builds using CMake's External
> Project mechanism. Each external project requires some sort of
> download, configuration, build and possibly install. The CMake defines
> needed to correctly access the results of the external project vary
> significantly. The trickiest part is find the proper download,
> configuration and CMake defines.
>
> For example, for the Point Cloud Library (http://pointclouds.org/) I
> created these external projects:
> VTK - git, cmake, make; VTK_DIR
> FLANN - zip, cmake, make install; FLANN_LIBRARY, FLANN_INCUDE_DIR
> Eigen - .tar.bz2,; EIGEN_INCLUDE_DIR
> Qhull - git, cmake, make;QHULL_LIBRARY,QHULL_INCLUDE_DIR
> Boost - .tar.gz, bootstrap.sh, b2; BOOST_ROOT
> GTest - .zip, cmake, make; GTEST_ROOT,GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR
>
> Slicer4 has many more.
>
> Should we start collecting sample ExternalProject_Add files for
> external projects?
>
> Bill
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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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