[CMake] how to link with a system library ?

Steven Samuel Cole steven.samuel.cole at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 07:28:42 EDT 2008


Eric Noulard schrieb:
> 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})
> 

Thanks for your help! :-)

${GTK_LIBRARIES} instead of $GTK_LIBRARIES fixes the CMake Error 
problem, but I still get GTK link errors. Also, even though I do 
include_directories(${GTK_INCLUDE_DIR}), I still get
gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory.

Has anyone ever seen this working ?


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