Install a CMake config file with exported targets etc.

[eyalroz]

When installing a package with cmake --install, especially one used as a library or a dependency, we should make sure and install a CMake configuration file, so that what we installs can later be found using CMake's find_package(). However - ANTs does not do this, it only installs headers and libraries.

ANTs version master branch as of 2026-02-01 (and also seen with 2.6.4)

[cookpa]

#1369

Draft started in #1656, if anyone can make a PR that does this, I think it would be useful.

[eyalroz]

Thanks for the link...

if anyone can make a PR that does this, I think it would be useful.

Indeed. But - that's a bit difficult without understanding what this "superbuild" business is supposed to be. In general, this repository is not a 'vanilla' kind of CMake project (judging by a superficial glance).

[cookpa]

I don't know how common Superbuilds are outside of the ITK / Kitware world, but I think it is a CMake term to mean a build process that builds dependencies before building itself.

The dependencies under SuperBuild/ExternalProject_* get built first, cmake is called with superbuild turned off, triggering the build of ANTS.cmake.