Installation is not implemented.

[andriish]

Hi all, @nealkruis , @ptsullivan, @chipbarnaby, @galanCA,

I see that the installation is not implemented. Could you, please, do that?

I can make a MR by myself, but I'm kind of "third party".

Best regards,

Andrii

[nealkruis]

@andriish what kind of installation are you looking for? As a library, Btwxt is generally compiled and linked to another program when that program is built.

We can set up to add platform specific binaries to each release on GitHub, but we can also set up the installation rules in CMake and use CPack to create installers to put the libraries somewhere else on your machine (like a common lib directory). I'm not sure how useful either of these would be.

I think it would help if I knew a bit more about how you want to use Btwxt.

[andriish]

Hi @nealkruis ,

thank you for your quick reply.

we can also set up the installation rules in CMake

This would be more than enough.

The use case is that I try to help a colleague to use btwtx in a larger cmake-based project and it is convenient to use btwtx there via ExternalProject_Add, but the install implementation is missing. One needs the lib and the headers.

Best regards,

Andrii

[nealkruis]

Thanks for the clarification!

We are planning a major release soon that might involve some refactoring of how the header files are situated. We can likely add this feature around the same time.

In the interim, I believe there are ways to use ExternalProject_Add without needing the install step. Can't you just add it as a git repository inside your source tree and add_subdirectory(path/to/btwxt)? This should build Btwxt and you can directly link its targets to your larger project.

[andriish]

Hi @nealkruis,

please have a look at #25 .

In the interim, I believe there are ways to use ExternalProject_Add without needing the install step.

Yes, basically substituting the installation with a manual copying.

Andrii