Using this lib over FetchContent

[rafaeldelboni]

I'm trying to use your libs over cmake's FetchContent like so:

# Download / Include Commons libs SC
FetchContent_Declare(
  sc_lib
  GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/tezc/sc.git
  GIT_TAG        master)

FetchContent_MakeAvailable(sc_lib)

Then when I try to link the sc_str in my build

target_link_libraries(
  disassembler
  constants
  sc_str
)

I get this error:

...

CMake Error at src/CMakeLists.txt:11 (target_link_libraries):
  Target "sc_str" of type EXECUTABLE may not be linked into another target.
  One may link only to INTERFACE, OBJECT, STATIC or SHARED libraries, or to
  executables with the ENABLE_EXPORTS property set.
...

[tezc]

Hi,

I'm not familiar with FetchContent unfortunately, I'll take a look though.

To make source distribution easier, folders are independent. If you want to use sc_str, you just copy sc_str.h sc_str.c to your project. At least, this is how I use these libraries in my projects, I just copy pieces I want. Doesn't this work for you?

I use CMake just for testing, it doesn't build .a or .so file.

Edit : Just to clarify, library distribution is drag & drop source and header files. If you want map, copy sc_map.h sc_map.c to your project. I did this deliberately not to deal with library build process. I think what FetchContent trying to do is, pull code & build & link to your project, this is why it doesn't work, I don't build library for sc_* files in Cmake files.

[rafaeldelboni]

Hi @tezc, thanks for your input,

I was able to make it work in my fork I did a PR to you check how I made, feel free to ignore or close it.

I know is super simple just copy and paste the libs in my project, but feels a little bit more modern to add as a downloadable dependency, in this way I can do better version control and even ignore lib files from my project git.

If you interested about cmake FetchContent I made a little boilerplate where I download a test library using it.

Anyways is just a suggestion thanks for your attention and libraries it will help me a lot :)

Best Regards

[tezc]

Hi @rafaeldelboni

Thanks a lot for the PR. I really appreciate it. I'll merge another PR for a few things and create a release tag, if FetchContent is being used for version control, that will help people who use FetchContent I believe.

Let me know if you have any issues while using libs :)
Cheers.

[tezc]

@rafaeldelboni

I've created v1.0.0 tag. I will keep api stable for major versions.

[rafaeldelboni]

Thanks a lot! :)