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Re: [Help-gsl] CMake build support for GSL
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Re: [Help-gsl] CMake build support for GSL |
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Tue, 6 May 2014 10:00:53 -0700 |
Hi Máté,
I'm glad you liked it.
As for multi-configuration builds, they are already supported. When using a
multi-configuration generator such as MSVC, release binaries are placed in
the Release directory and debug ones are placed in the Debug directory. You
can also have separate out-of-tree builds with different settings for
single-configuration CMake generators such as Makefile generator.
Best regards,
Victor
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc <
address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
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>
> Other than this, fantastic work!
>
>
> Máté
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> Feladó: Patrick Alken
> Elküldve: kedd, 2014. április 29. 22:36
> Címzett: address@hidden
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> 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
>