Building a library using autotools from cmake

Question

This is my first try with cmake and I would like to have, if possible, some feedbacks about what I did since some problems remain.

In the CMakeLists.txt of the library f

Answer 1

I think that you'd be better off using the ExternalProject feature of cmake. I guess you have your project and have libantrl in a sub directory?

project
      +- libantlr
      +- mysrc
  ---- etc ----

If that's the case, you can do something like this in the top level CMakeLists.txt:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
project(test)
include(ExternalProject)
ExternalProject_Add(libantlr
    SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libantlr
    CONFIGURE_COMMAND ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libantlr/configure --prefix=
    BUILD_COMMAND ${MAKE})

The is expanded to something like libantlr-prefix, so things are installed in your build tree rather than in /usr/local, which is what autotools would do without a prefix.