Re: [Help-gsl] CMake build support for GSL

[Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc]

Hi!


I have recently posted how nice it would be if NuGet or Chocolatey would get 
some GNU loving, and GSL could be the first one. The CMake file you created 
does show a lot of and great congrats. I managed to build the libraries just 
fine, I would have just one comment:


It would be nice if the CMakeLists.txt file supported multi-configuration 
builds without seperate install prefixes. For eg. if on Windows, where building 
under lib/Debug and lib/Release is very common, it would be nice if I wouldn’t 
have to always build and create the directory structure myself, but have the 
makefile do it for me.



Other than this, fantastic work!


Máté





Feladó: Patrick Alken
Elküldve: ‎kedd‎, ‎2014‎. ‎április‎ ‎29‎. ‎22‎:‎36
Címzett: address@hidden





Hi Victor,

   Thanks it looks like you did a lot of work on this. I was able to 
build the current git repository easily with your script. I've added the 
file in contrib/CMakeLists.txt so others can use it if they want.

Thanks,
Patrick

On 04/29/2014 02:23 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've implemented CMake <http://www.cmake.org/> build support for GSL. As
> you probably know CMake is a popular alternative to autotools. It is used
> in many open-source projects including large ones such as KDE, LLVM and
> Blender (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMake#Notable_applications). I won't
> go into details describing benefits of CMake, there is plenty of
> information on the web, e.g. this article <http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/>.
> My particular interest was in building GSL with the Visual C++ compiler.
>
> The CMake build script for GSL is available at
> *https://github.com/ampl/gsl/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt
> <https://github.com/ampl/gsl/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt>*. It's just a
> single file that needs to be put in the top GSL directory.
>
> I've ported most of the autoconf platform checks to CMake and implemented
> extraction of various information such as version and lists of source files
> from autoconf and automake files. This way the CMake script requires little
> maintenance and can co-exist with the current GSL automake build system.
> Changes to the automake files like adding files and additional
> subdirectories holding convenience libraries don't require changes to
> CMake files
> unless there is a modification of the project structure. The config.h file
> produced by CMake is identical to the one produced by the configure script
> to make checking the consistency of platform checks easy.
>
> Out-of-tree builds and tests are supported. I've tested the script on Linux
> and MacOS X with gcc and on Windows with Visual C++ (both nmake and Visual
> Studio builds work).
>
> P.S. I sent this email to gsl-discuss some time ago, but it didn't come
> through, so I'm copying it here.
>
> Best regards,
> Victor