cmake native build files creation

[W.P. van Paassen]

Hi,

Thanks for writing ChipMunk, I think it's awesome!

As a token of my appreciation I've added support for native build files creation with cmake (http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Features.html)

This is how it works on GNU/Linux.

*First install cmake if it's not already part of your distribution
*cd to the build directory and type cmake ..
*make

Now the library is in build/source and chipmunk_demos is in build.

The nice part of this is that the makefiles our created out of the
source tree so you can easily do a rm -rf * in directory build and
start over.

Keep up the great work!

Kind regards,
W.P. van Paassen

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[W.P. van Paassen]

[milliams]

[W.P. van Paassen]

Hi milliams,

thanks for improving on the cmakelist.txt file. I was wondering though why you kept the installation of the static library out of your patch

INSTALL(TARGETS chipmunk chipmunk_static
LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
)

Personally I don't want to dynamically link to a physics engine, because after carefully tweaking the physics (and maybe some of it quirks too) the installation of a new shared lib can ruin the game because of fixed (but anticipated for in game) bugs/quirks.

cheers,
W.P.

[milliams]

I only left it out because in the version in svn, it wasn't being installed. I agree that it probably should be installed for those who wish to statically link.
I've attached an updated patch which installs the static library as libchipmunk.a.

[viblo]