Libraries for message parsing, message routing, logging, and others will need to be packaged for easier inclusion into build/run environments for xAPPs. This page contains notes on various methods for generating packages in Debian (.deb) and RedHat Package Manager (.rpm) formats.
Using CMake
CMake is a build tool generally used for describing and building complex C applications, but is also makes the generation of packages (e.g. .deb or .rpm) very simple. The CPACK extension to CMake is used to generate the necessary rules in a project's Makefile such that the command make package will create all packages. At a high level, package creation via CMake is accomplished by defining a set of CPACK related variables, and then including the Cpack module. The following code sample illustrates this:
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