> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Owen Alanzo Hogarth > <gurenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also you said the PROJECT() should only be defined once, but shouldn't > each > > cmakelists.txt contain a project() or else cmake complains at me. > > > According to the last paragraph of: > > https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/project.html > > you only need a PROJECT () in the top-level CMakeLists.txt... >
While this is true, you only need it called once at the top level, there are use cases where you see multiple calls to project() in aa given tree. Usually this is in the case of adding independent third party libraries. For example, imagine a source tree like: /CMakeLists.txt /src/CMakeLists.txt /src/file1.cxx /src/file2.cxx /thirdparty/CMakeLists.txt /thirdparty/libfoo/CMakeLists.txt /thirdparty/libfoo/foo.h /thirdparty/libfoo/foo.cxx /thirdparty/libbar/CMakeLists.txt /thirdparty/libbar/bar.h /thirdparty/libbar/bar.cxx Here, you may have project() called in /CMakeLists.txt, /thirdparty/libfoo/CMakeLists.txt, and /thirdparty/libbar/CMakeLists.txt. This would mean that libfoo and libbar are are independent projects that can be built on their own, outside of the top level project. This is generally discouraged nowadays and is replaced by using ExternalProject but prior to that module it was a common way to create a "superbuild" of many CMake-based dependencies. You still see it's use in many projects that have been around a long time, i.e. VTK, ITK, etc. It's even how CMake itself manages building it's own version of it's dependencies (liblzma, libcurl, libarchive, etc.).
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