While it is not directly written in documentation pages for versions prior to v3.14, CMake functions described under cmake-modules section requires including specific module. As function ExternalProject_Add is described in the documentation page titled as “ExternalProject”, you need to use include(ExternalProject) before using it. Same strategy works for any other modules except Find<name> ones. Those … Read more
Problems -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} This is enough for single-configuration projects. But for Xcode and Visual Studio, you need to set CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES plus call build . –config at the build stage. See my answer. COMMAND cd <BINARY_DIR> && make install This will work only for Makefile generators of course. To be cross-platform you can use: –build . –target … Read more
there is a way to do this. but it´s kind of hackish. you basically add a custom target, that reruns cmake during build. you will have to try this in a small test project, to decide if it works for you find_package(Beaengine) ############################################ # # BeaEngine # include(ExternalProject) externalproject_add(BeaEngine SOURCE_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/beaengine SVN_REPOSITORY http://beaengine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ CMAKE_ARGS -DoptHAS_OPTIMIZED=TRUE … Read more
Because you’re downloading the external project, you already know where everything is because you just downloaded it, so it doesn’t need ‘finding’. I got it working with add_library. This is my actual code that works: ExternalProject_Add(ForexConnectDownload PREFIX 3rd_party #–Download step————– URL http://fxcodebase.com/bin/forexconnect/1.3.1/ForexConnectAPI-1.3.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz URL_HASH SHA1=7fdb90a2d45085feb8b76167cae419ad4c211d6b #–Configure step————- CONFIGURE_COMMAND “” #–Build step—————– BUILD_COMMAND “” #–Install step————— UPDATE_COMMAND … Read more
I think you’re mixing up two different paradigms here. As you noted, the highly flexible ExternalProject module runs its commands at build time, so you can’t make direct use of Project A’s import file since it’s only created once Project A has been installed. If you want to include Project A’s import file, you’ll have … Read more