Using cget to manage dependencies that are constantly evolving together with main library
allanleal opened this issue · comments
Let's say I have a library project lib
and another called dep
, such that lib
depends on dep
. Both libraries are very dynamic - they are changing all the time, and I want to make a quick change in dep
and this be easily captured in lib
.
How would you recommend the use of cget
for a convenient workflow when developing these two (or more) libraries in parallel?
I'm trying here something like:
lib
anddep
live in the same directory.- Inside
lib
, I docget install --update ../dep
- cmake is checking inside the
cget
dir for thedep
library (using the toolchain file).
My issue here is that install --update
compiles the library from scratch, instead of an incremental build.
After trying git-submodule
and having several issues with it, I'm giving cget
a try.
Never tested something like this but you could possibly pass --build-path
to the cget build
to set it up in some sane place and then manually run make && make install
in the build directory.
How would you recommend the use of cget for a convenient workflow when developing these two (or more) libraries in parallel?
Are these two libraries cmake libraries? The best is to use cmake and include both libraries with add_subdirectory
in the superproject.
My issue here is that install --update compiles the library from scratch, instead of an incremental build.
We could add a flag to keep the build directory so an incremental build is possible, but I dont know how well that will always works.
cget
makes a copy of the local directory because sometimes it modifies the source directory to inject the cmake file(when using the --cmake
flag). However, this copy might make it always rebuild anyways due to every fill being copied in.