[CMake] How do I search for personal libraries?

[Saad Khattak]

Thanks Michael. The link is very helpful (although very hard to digest
[probably because I am new to CMake] - I have gone over it multiple times
now and don't fully understand everything). I will experiment with those
commands in my projects.

- Saad


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:

> You should find this interesting:
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Tutorials/How_to_create_a_ProjectConfig.cmake_file
>
> In short:
> * In project A create a AConfig.cmake file and export your targets
> * In project B call find_package(A REQUIRED)
>
> HTH
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Saad Khattak <saadrustam at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> Suppose I have two personal repositories: A and B. Repository B has a
>> dependency on repository A i.e. repository A builds multiple libraries and
>> repository B builds multiple libraries and executables. I can build 32-bit
>> and 64-bit libraries/executables for both by having a 'build' and
>> 'buildx64' projects generated by CMake. The libraries and executables are
>> put in the default folders (e.g. repoA/build/src/libraryName/Debug and
>> repoA/buildx64/src/library/Debug).
>>
>> Repo B's executables depend on repo A's libraries and libraries in B.
>> Linking with libraries within B is straightforward as CMake is able to
>> figure out the necessary paths for the libraries B is building which B's
>> executables depend on.
>>
>> Repo B also depends on Repo A's libraries and all executables in B have
>> to search for them. How do I go about this? Currently I am searching for
>> each library by specifying its path:
>>
>> # I have a CACHE variable for the path to Repo A's build folder that the
>> user must provide
>> target_link_libraries(myProject
>> repoAPath/build/src/LibName/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR})
>>
>> which feels like a very wrong way to go about linking with other
>> libraries considering CMake is supposed to make the finding libraries part
>> easier. I would appreciate clarification of the workflow in this case.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Saad
>>
>>
>>
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