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CMake ExternalProject

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cmake, cpp
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with the linked CMake ExternalProject documentation and the example CMakeLists.txt in the referenced repository. Determine how Polyscope, Eigen, Boost, and CGAL should be downloaded and built together. Done means a documented, working ExternalProject example for this dependency workflow.

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Description

Hi,

How you download Polyscope with its main dependencies using CMake ExternalProject command:

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/ExternalProject.html

This is a command that downloads github repository. But it must be setup so that dependencies are included and built. Do you have any example using it?

I use this command to download Eigen, Boost, CGAL and would like to add Polyscope in the same workflow, but it is out of my learning knowledge since it is not a header only library. This is one example how I use this command in my CMake projects: https://github.com/petrasvestartas/CMAKE/blob/main/super_build/example_eigen/CMakeLists.txt

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