Add foonathan as a third-party [13817]

[Nir-Az]

Hi,

I am integrating FastDDS into a Cmake project and I was wondering, foonathan_memory is a hard dependency of FastDDS, same as asio and tinyxml.
Why is it threated differently inside the cmake? wasn't it better if it could have been integrated automatically with
-DTHIRDPARTY_foonathan_memory=FORCE?

Instead the user have to make sure he integrate it before adding FastDDS project.
And make sure the versions match and the API is not broken..

Thanks
Nir

[xyzhai-pro]

hello, I am integrating FastDDS into a Cmake project by using Xxx-config.cmake in "cmake" folder. However, i failed. Could you tell me how to integrate FastDDS into Cmake project.

[Nir-Az]

Hi @xyzhai-pro ,

As I know how frustrating it is to make this complicated integration (and got no response here about it ) I will share how I made it happen (Works on Linux + Windows)

I am sure there are several ways to do it.

Main Cmake addition
external_foonathan_memory.cmake
external_fastdds.cmake

Too bad the integration of hard dependencies (Like Foonathan-memory) is not taking care off as part of Fast-DDS, it will surly help the users..
Good luck.