Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of CMakeModularizeLibrary

Timestamp:

May 23, 2008, 3:21:58 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Douglas Gregor

Comment:

How to tell CMake that a library is modular

CMakeModularizeLibrary

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 Once all of the headers have been moved and the changes have been committed, there should be no remaining headers in the main Boost include directory. 
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+= Informing CMake that the library is modular =
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+The CMake build system needs to know that the layout of the Boost library follows the rules of a modular library, which also instructs it to add the appropriate include paths when compiling itself and any of its dependencies. To label the library as modular, edit the `CMakeLists.txt` file contained in the library's subdirectory (e.g., `libs/filesystem/CMakeLists.txt`, and add the argument `MODULAR` to the use of [wikiCMakeLibraryProject `boost_library_project`]. After this change, Filesystem library's `CMakeLists.txt` looks like this:
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+{{{
+boost_library_project(
+  Filesystem 
+  SRCDIRS src 
+  TESTDIRS test
+  MODULAR
+  DESCRIPTION "Provides portable facilities to query and manipulate paths, files, and directories."
+  AUTHORS "Beman Dawes <bdawes -at- acm.org>"
+  )
+}}}
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+If the library you're modularizing does not have `DESCRIPTION`, `AUTHORS`, or `MAINTAINERS` arguments, please add them! Short library descriptions are available at http://www.boost.org/doc/ along with author information; additional maintainer information can be found in http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/libs/maintainers.txt.
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