[Nexus] CMake build for NAPI

[Peterson, Peter F.]

Eugen,

I assume that you saw my changes. Amongst the things that still need to
happen is:
 1. Look at what finders exist in cmake 2.8.8 (what you currently require)
and use them rather than writing your own.
https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/tree/master/Modules
 2. Register all of the tests so ctest can run them.
 3. Start getting language bindings working. C++ is the only one I tried.
It is completely non-functional.
 4. Try on a 64bit system. What is there currently doesn¹t look in
/usr/lib64 which is a standard place.
 5. Figure out how to package things. I recommend against cpack on the
linuxes as it has bad support (especially in cmake 2.8.8) for multiple
sub-packages like what nexus currently ships with.

I can continue to chip away at things, but I thought it would be best if
we had a common plan.

P^2

On 8/14/15, 6:13 AM, "NeXus on behalf of Eugen Wintersberger"
<nexus-bounces at nexusformat.org on behalf of eugen.wintersberger at desy.de>
wrote:

>Hi Mark,
> I will have a look on this during the weekend. Thanks for the feedback.
>
>Eugen
>
>On 08/14/15 11:59, Koennecke Mark (PSI) wrote:
>> Eugen,
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 11.08.2015 um 20:26 schrieb Eugen Wintersberger
>>><eugen.wintersberger at desy.de>:
>>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>> as you may know, I am working on the cmake build for NAPI. A very
>>> simple build based on CMake is now ready for testing. It would be nice
>>> if some of you maybe could test the build (dynamic and static library)
>>> on linux. I tested the build on Debian Wheezy and Jessie, as well as on
>>> CentOS 7. However, more extensive testing is required.
>>>
>> 
>> I have tested the cmake build both under scientific linux 6 and OSX
>>yosemite. In both cases
>> the basic build runs. But when I tried to run the test it failed
>>because the test program was
>> configured for HDF4. This needs to be improved.
>> 
>> I then proceeded to try and build it with  HDF4. The build could not
>>pick up HDF4. I have it in a
>> non standard location and I tried to coerce cmake to locate it using
>>two different paths:
>> * by CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
>> * by a CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH in CMakeLists.txt
>> 
>> Both failed such that I assume there is something wrong  with the HDF4
>>detection code.
>> 
>> Another suggestion: the CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH thing should be in the
>>CMakeList.txt by 
>> default. Commented out and accompanied with a explanation: change this
>>if your stuff 
>> lives elsewhere.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>>      Mark
>>  
>> 
>>> I am looking forward to your feedback.
>>>
>>> best regards
>>> Eugen
>>>
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