[CMake] how to link with a system library ?

Eric Noulard eric.noulard at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 06:38:04 EDT 2008


2008/9/21 Steven Samuel Cole <steven.samuel.cole at gmail.com>:
> I would like to link a system library into an executable, GTK in this case.
> What I'm trying to do is
>
> include(FindGTK)
>
> target_link_libraries(myexec $GTK_LIBRARIES)
>
> add_executable (myexec sources)
>
> Result:
>
> CMake Error: Attempt to add link library "GTK_LIBRARIES" to target "myexec"
> which is not built by this project.
>
> What am I doing wrong ?

You may be missing curly brace around variable could you try:


target_link_libraries(myexec ${GTK_LIBRARIES})

-- 
Erk


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