This page collects all the data and links used to improve the CMake build system, such that you can find quick links inhere instead of scrolling through the forum.

Thread on Orocos-dev : http://www.orocos.org/node/1073 (in case you like to scroll)

CMake manual on how to use and create Findxyz macros : http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake:How_To_Find_Libraries

List of many alternative modules : http://zi.fi/cmake/Modules/

An alternative solution for users of RTT and OCL is installing the Orocos-RTT-target-config.cmake macros, which serve a similar purpose as the pkgconfig .pc files: they accumulate the flags used to build the library. This may be a solution for Windows systems. Also, CMake suggests that .pc files are only 'suggestive' and that still the standard CMake macros must be used to fully capture and store all information of the dependency you're looking at.