Debian Package CPack Template

This project contains a CPack template to build a Debian package of external third-party CMake projects. This project is created to simplify the deployment of third-party libraries/frameworks which are build using CMake but do not yet have an official Debian package to be used. This project works by including a third-party source code as a Git submodule, then including it as a CMake subdirectory, and last compile it as a Debian package.

Usage

Including the Third-party Source Code

• Clone the third-party source code repository as a Git submodule.

  $ git submodule add https://github.com/user/something

  Optionally, you could specify the branch/tag to be used using -b option, see this.

• If the Git submodule already exists, initialize it and pull the latest commits.

  $ git submodule update --init --recursive

• Modify the CPack configuration in the CMakeLists.txt according to the current third-party source code information.

  See this guide for more information on CPack configuration for Debian package.

Building the Project

• Create a build directory and move to it.

  $ mkdir build
  $ cd build

• Configure CMake with the following options.

  $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..

• Build the project.

  $ make

  Optionally, you could speed up the build process by specifying the parallel job using -j option, see this.

• Build Debian packages.

  $ make package

Usage Examples

This list contains repositories that use the template from this repository.

• threeal/librtabmap-deb.
• threeal/libfreenect2-deb.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License