Re: How to download required libraries when using Cmake?

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 25 April 2016 at 11:53, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
wrote:

> On 25 April 2016 at 11:38, Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > How are you to download the required support libraries with cmake?
> >
> > With nmake you get a warning if they are out of date and you can run the
> > setup target to have them updated. If I’m not missing something this does
> > not work with
> >
> > Cmake?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Anders
>
> CMake causes the third party libs to be downloaded using the same
> PowerShell script as nmake, win-setup.ps1, however I think this is only a
> CMake generation step, not build step.  There's a comment in CMakeLists.txt:
>
> # XXX Add a dependency on ${_ws_lib_dir}/current_tag.txt?
>
> That would somehow force a run of win-setup.ps1 to be part of the build
> step.  The tricky part is sequencing it so that it would be the first
> target to be built.
Note that the CMake generation step is automagically done for a build if
any of the CMakeLists.txt files have changed, but there's no current
dependency to cause that to happen if the tag is changed.  As the tag is
implicit in win-setup.ps1, that could be used as a pre-build dependency.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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