[CMake] Managing a local installation of cmake-built open source packages

[Guillaume Dumont]

You can have a look at:

Hunter: https://github.com/ruslo/hunter
Conan: https://conan.io/

HTH

Guillaume


On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Konstantin Podsvirov <
konstantin at podsvirov.pro> wrote:

> 18.01.2017, 21:32, "ardi" <ardillasdelmonte at gmail.com>:
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Konstantin Podsvirov
> <konstantin at podsvirov.pro> wrote:
>
>  Hello Ardi!
>
>
> [...]
>
>
>  Sounds like, you need cross-platform (several desktops) package manager
>  compatible with cmake.
>
>  If all desktops with GUI, what about using CPack IFW generator?
>
>  https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CPackIFW.html
>
>
> Thanks for the idea, Konstantin. Yes, all the OSs I use have a GUI,
> although I don't use Qt. If the best solution is IFW, I'd use Qt only
> for this. BTW, I'm new to IFW, and if I'm reading it correctly, cpack
> generates an installer, which I guess is an executable... but... can
> the installer also be used for uninstalling? Will an installer of a
> new version of a package uninstall an older version if it exists?
>
> CPack IFW generator help you to create installer (yes, it's executable
> based on Qt,
> but static linked) thats you need run on target platform (you don't have
> preinstalled Qt).
>
> CPack IFW generator can also help you to create packages repository to use
> from installers
> (local or from network).
>
> Installer will remove old package before update him to new version.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Konstantin Podsvirov
>
>
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