From edee6d40cb4c71efb716d7c3298c76215c548442 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: smathis <stefan.mathis@psi.ch>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:29:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added default frontend function

---
 CMakeLists.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a851031..527818a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -77,32 +77,41 @@ target_compile_definitions(
 )
 
 ################################################################################
-## Test Frontend
+## Default Frontend builder
 ################################################################################
 
-if(${BUILD_FRONTEND})
+set(_DEFAULT_BULK_MONITOR_FRONTEND_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}" CACHE INTERNAL "")
 
+function(default_bulk_monitor_frontend F_TARGET)
   add_executable(
-    bulk_monitor_fe
-    frontend/bulk_monitor_scfe.cxx
+    ${F_TARGET}
+    ${_DEFAULT_BULK_MONITOR_FRONTEND_DIR}/frontend/bulk_monitor_scfe.cxx
   )
 
   set_property(
     TARGET
-      bulk_monitor_fe
+      ${F_TARGET}
     PROPERTY
       CXX_STANDARD 11
   )
 
   target_include_directories(
-    bulk_monitor_fe
+    ${F_TARGET}
     PRIVATE
       $ENV{MIDASSYS}/drivers
   )
 
+  find_package(Midas REQUIRED)
+
   target_link_libraries(
-    bulk_monitor_fe
-    bulk_monitor
+    ${F_TARGET}
+    PRIVATE
+      bulk_monitor
   )
 
-endif()
+  install(
+    TARGETS
+      ${F_TARGET}
+    RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
+  )
+endfunction()