[CMake] Question about best practices for large Multi-stage builds

[Thomas Taranowski]

Dan,

How did you end up handling the precompiled dependencies?  Did you use a
dependency management system, such as ivy, or roll your own system?

Thomas Taranowski | 425-442-9209 | skype: thomas.taranowski |
baringforge.com



On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Taranowski <tom at baringforge.com>
> wrote:
> > Now, I'm trying to implement a multi-stage build which does the
> following:
> > 1) builds some external third-party dependencies.
> > 2) auto-generate some code
> > 3) build the source
> > 4) package the result
> >
> > To do this, I'd like to implement some top level build targets in cmake,
> so
> > I can run make auto_generate, make third_party, etc.
> >
> > I can see a couple different potential ways to do this, but I've not been
> > able to google up  documentation that discusses the best method for
> > implementing this.  How are folks generally approaching this top level
> build
> > target issue?
>
> I tried to do it all in cmake for a while, but then I gave up and use a
> shell script or something to drive the inner builds.  The problem was,
> some developers wanted to not build everything; they wanted
> precompiled versions of the other packages.  And it was just too painful
> for some devs to build one way, and others to build another way.
> - Dan
>
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