[Insight-developers] Additional CMake targets

[Bill Hoffman]

I missed the Philadelphia meeting.  However, if I was there, I would not
have suggested this...   The only way to do this would be manually with custom
targets and add dependencies.   As you mention it will be hard to maintain.
I am not sure what this buys us, but more complexity.   From the cmake configure
step they can choose to turn on/off these features.   I really do not think
that this is something for a "new" user.   A "new" user, should just to ALL_BUILD and
be done with it.  They can choose testing or examples before the build.   This
sounds more like a convenience for developers than something for new users.  It is
one more strange thing that you don't see in any other project.

-Bill
 

At 07:54 AM 7/15/2003, Miller, James V (Research) wrote:
>I think at the Philadelphia meeting we discussed adding a few additional build targets to Insight.  Since DevStudio and .NET show dozens of projects it can be daunting to a new user to figure out what to build when.  Also, I find when I am making changes to the system, I just want to build the tests and once I get things ironed out, I'll move onto the examples, etc.
> 
>We currently have an ALL_BUILD target, I think we discussed adding
> 
>ALL_LIBRARIES
>ALL_TESTS
>ALL_EXAMPLES
>ALL_WRAPPERS  (should this be broken down further into ALL_TCL_WRAPPERS, ALL_PYTHON_WRAPPERS, etc?)
> 
>How should this be managed?  Should we hand code these in the CMakeLists.txt files? CMake should already know what all the libraries are so it could build that one automatically (with the appropriate changes to CMake).  While CMake knows the names of the executables that it makes, it probably cannot distinguish an executable that is a test from an executable that is an example.  So perhaps these targets should be spelled out in the CMakeLists.txt files.  However, this may become a maintenance issue (when someone adds an example, they would have to remember to edit the ALL_EXAMPLES target).
> 
>Jim
> 
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>Jim Miller 
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