Re: FindIlmbase.cmake & FindOpenEXR.cmake

I am by no means an expert on CMake but I do find it to be convenient. I have my own CMake build systems for OpenVDB and for plugins for DCCs. I built ILMBase and OpenEXR using CMake and installed it to their default locations. I just needed to modify some of the cmake module files to add windows paths to use when looking for headers and libs, or add the hints before calling find_package. It has made building projects dependent on ILMBase/OpenEXR a lot easier! Both on Windows and Linux or switching machines! But with that said, some cmake modules for finding a package are better than others and any work to make an official cmake module would be awesome!
 
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Openexr-devel] FindIlmbase.cmake & FindOpenEXR.cmake
From: "Piotr Stanczyk" <[email protected]>
Date: 1/25/16 10:31 am
To: "Christopher Horvath" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected] [email protected]" <[email protected]>

 I've typically had more success with the autoconf tools, once a certain level of familiarity is achieved that is. 
 Having said that, I would like to echo your sentiments around proprietary build systems inside of tech companies for projects such as this one.
 
-Piotr
 



 On 25 January 2016 at 10:23, Christopher Horvath <[email protected]> wrote:
  This may be counterproductive to share, but...  
I've been working with production CMake installations for years - since beginning the Alembic project - and I have yet to get one to work completely correctly. I have resorted, almost exclusively, to simply hardcoding the locations of each of the libraries directly, and skipping the "FindPackage" step altogether.  After spending about 3 days trying to get the HDF5 Cmake file to actually correctly find the installation, I gave up.
 
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.
 
Am I alone in my failure to get CMake to work the way it is intended?
 
Chris


 On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
  That would be great!  
Here are a few I found from "reputable" sources that presumably have seen a lot of use. It would be good to look them over and synthesize the best ideas into a canonical one that is as simple and robust as possible so nobody is tempted to modify it downstream.
 
Intel: https://github.com/embree/embree/blob/master/common/cmake/FindOpenEXR.cmake
 
NVIDIA texture tools: https://code.google.com/p/nvidia-texture-tools/source/browse/trunk/cmake/FindOpenEXR.cmake
 
Blender: https://github.com/dfelinto/blender/blob/master/build_files/cmake/Modules/FindOpenEXR.cmake
 
OpenSceneGraph: https://github.com/dfelinto/blender/blob/master/build_files/cmake/Modules/FindOpenEXR.cmake
 
 

   On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:37 AM, Ashley Whetter <[email protected]> wrote:
I've already implemented a FindIlmBase and FindOpenExr in this pull request: https://github.com/openexr/openexr/pull/167
Because ilmbase and openexr are built with cmake though, it's supposed to export itself as a package that can be used by find_package instead. I started an implementation of this earlier this week to replace the Find files in that pull request but not had time to finish it yet.
As you're asking about it I'll make this a priority and try and get it finished asap. Because you're right, it's difficult to know what's best with no standard version.

Ashley

From: Piotr Stanczyk
Sent: &lrm;23/&lrm;01/&lrm;2016 07:19
To: Larry Gritz
Cc: [email protected] [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Openexr-devel] FindIlmbase.cmake & FindOpenEXR.cmake


I see your point ... google seems to come back with quite a few, alas.  I can see from the OIIO thread its not as easy as could be.   
I've logged an issue here : https://github.com/openexr/openexr/issues/176
 
Thanks
 
-Piotr
 


 On 22 January 2016 at 23:10, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
 These don't seem to be a standard bit of cmake yet, and so countless divergent approaches to them can be found across a wide number of projects. Just google "FindIlmbase.cmake".
 
 Is there any consensus on the best one? (It sure as heck isn't mine, which I think is the single ugliest one that I've found yet, I'm embarrassed to say, and I'd like to replace it and pretend my current one never existed.)
 
 It would be great if a particularly good one was incorporated into the ilmbase/openexr distribution itself as the canonical one that everybody could use.
 
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