CPack: How to specify different package versions for components? - cmake

I have a CMake project to build multiple shared libraries and tools, most of these under subdirectories:
add_directory(libFirst)
add_directory(libSecond)
add_directory(myTool)
# etc...
The install(TARGET "someTarget" COMPONENT "someTarget" ...) rules are in the respective subdirectory/CMakeLists.txt files.
I would like to generate Debian packages for all of these using a make package command from the build directory. I have CPACK_DEB_COMPONENT_INSTALL set to ON.
The problem I'm facing, is that not all of the targets have the same VERSION and/or SOVERSION. For example, libFirst is at version 1.0.0.0 and libSecond is version 4.3.0.0. This means that the generated packages should also have different version, but the only way I've found to specify the version is to specify the CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR, CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR and CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCH variables (and perhaps the internal CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION variable), which set the version for all generated packages.
Is there a way to set package versions per-component, for example by setting some variables similarly to the other CPACK_COMPONENT_<COMPONENT>_* or CPACK_DEBIAN_<COMPONENT>_* variables?

I don't think this is possible at the moment but I have created a merge-request (https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/2305) which provides this functionality.
I hope it will get approved but in the meantime you can locally change your CPackDeb.cmake as shown in this diff: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/2305/diffs. The default location of that file is in /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CPackDeb.cmake.

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My OpenAPI (v3.0.0) YAML spec has references to other schemas. These schemas are in files named like gender.v1.yaml.
The generated models (for language = kotlin or kotlin-spring) have class names such as Genderv1.
This seems logical to me, however this is a recent change and I'm not sure what is causing this switch. Previously the class name from the same file used to be Gender.
Furthermore, the same spec and openapi-generator-cli version on other systems such as our CI, generates Gender i.e. without the characters after the ..
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I was trying to use a lower version of openapi-generator on my Mac, by installing via npm and performing a openapi-generator-cli version-manager set 5.3.1 for e.g.
Previously I had openapi-generator installed via brew with a version of 5.4.1.
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Optional in-tree builds for dependencies

I have an existing codebase where a number of third-party dependencies were added as Git submodules, and their directories are directly referenced inside CMakeLists.txt, as in include_directories(../external/foo).
Some of the dependencies are large projects, like FFmpeg, and I'd rather just use the version I installed to my system with a package manager. But the maintainer of the codebase wants to be able to continue using the in-tree dependencies.
I thought a compromise would be to configure CMake to permit both, either using an installed package, or using the in-tree submodules. I think find_package can be used to find the installed package, but is there a good way to implement this behavior that isn't too hacky?
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Where to install FindLib.cmake

I'm creating a library (called fmi2) which I intend to install on my local machine (via a package manager) and then link to with a bunch of other libraries.
I'll be providing a Findfmi2.cmake file so that I can call find_package(fmi2) from my other libraries, but where should this file be conventionally installed?
Here are some choices I've considered and their problems:
/usr/share/cmake-3.8/Modules/Findfmi2.cmake
Advantage: find_package(fmi2) will just work
Disadvantage: Only works for one version of cmake
/usr/share/cmake/Modules/Findfmi2.cmake
Advantage: Should work for any version of cmake
Disadvantage: This is not a default folder. We would need to add set(CMAKE_MODULES_PATH /usr/share/cmake/Modules) and this kills any portability.
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/Findfmi2.cmake
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Disadvantage: Not system-wide. Need to manually add this file to each library that uses it. This duplicates files in my framework.
You are authoring content in CMake. You don't need a FindModule. That is designed to find external non-CMake outputs.
This Stackoverflow post from ruslo should help you understand the difference between find_package() module mode and config mode. It also answers your question about paths for FindModules, i.e. they are copied into your CMake project, not discovered system-wide, unless they are part of the official FindModules bundled with CMake in the "Modules" directory.
Modern CMake documentation now finally contains good examples to create a config mode package: cmake-packages
If you want explicit full examples, though using slightly older syntax for the config.cmake files, ruslo has more on Github.

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So looking through the newest release of GLM 0.9.7, I dont see a FindGLM.cmake file anywhere, used to easily include GLM in CMAKE. I could always use an old version of it found online but the following commit had me stumped:
https://github.com/g-truc/glm/commit/62a7daddcf082f754000fc5e42d7bcdf93c895f7
Commit message is "Removed obsolete FindGLM". So, did the developer just dump it or are there in fact a new way to find libraries in CMAKE?
Yes, CMake Find modules (FindXyz.cmake files) are deprecated in favour of Package Config files (usually named XyzConfig.cmake). The original philosophy is that Find modules are shipped and maintained by CMake, while Package Config files are shipped and maintained by the package they are intended to find.
CMake's find_package command actually has two modes: Module mode (legacy, using Find modules) and Config mode (preferred, using Package Config files).
For the client consuming the package, little should change (unless more customisation is desired, which is offered by the Config mode of find_package).
Notice that the very commit to which you linked not only drops FindGLM.cmake, but also adds a glmConfig.cmake file.

How to set version and build number from build server and also update an assembly with this version?

I would like to create a setup project based on WiX which does the following (as well as creating the installation package):
callable from msbuild running on a CI build server (Hudson)
take a version number from some asset in either the setup project or the main assembly
take the current build number from the CI system
create a full product version number [version].[build] such as 1.3.432
store this value in an asset (e.g. the main assembly) is such a way that it can be read out at run time and displayed on the splash window
I have tried a number of approaches and googled a lot but have not found a workable solution. Can anyone help?
The WiX toolset does this by creating a version.cs, a version.h and a version.wxi during the MSBuild then including those files in all the projects. That way our executable can print out their version when you run something like candle.exe -? and all of the bundles and .msi packages have their versions set correctly.
You can see how we do this in tools\WixBuild.Version.targets (here). It would straight forward to override the properties in WixBuild.Version.targets with properties passed via the command-line to MSBuild via Hudson if you wanted.