Re: [Openexr-devel] FindIlmbase.cmake & FindOpenEXR.cmake

[Gonzalo Garramuño]

On 25/01/2016 03:23 p.m., Christopher Horvath wrote:
> I'm really curious to hear if anyone has gotten CMake to work for real 
> in a complex production environment with multiple versions of things 
> like boost, python, and so on.  I note that every large organization 
> I've seen (such as Google, Facebook) just ports the builds to their 
> proprietary build tools, rather than using autoconf or cmake.
The way I use cmake is that I have all FindPackage.cmake use an 
environment variable to search for packages.  Then I have a wrapper 
script that just sets all the variables which I run before running 
cmake.  I also use a wrapper script (mk) to run cmake and make all in 
one step and handle the setting of different OSes.
This has worked fine with me and mrViewer, which has dependencies on 
boost, fltk, ffmpeg, imagemagick, sampleicc, ctl, aces_container, 
openexr, glew, etc. and is coded to run on windows and linux. Updating 
to new versions of everything usually takes me a day.

I have had nothing but frustration with things like autotools as porting 
to windows is nearly impossible.