Hello, coming from scons I want to take a look into cmake...
My CMakeList.txt looks like: cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.0) project (ASTE) add_executable(readMesh readMesh.cpp) find_library(precice precice PATHS $ENV{PRECICE_ROOT}/build/last) target_link_libraries(readMesh ${precice}) set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH} $ENV{PRECICE_ROOT}/build/last) find_package(Boost 1.60.0 COMPONENTS program_options filesystem REQUIRED) target_link_libraries(readMesh ${Boost_LIBRARIES}) find_package(MPI REQUIRED) target_link_libraries(readMesh ${MPI_LIBRARIES}) set(COMPILE_FLAGS ${COMPILE_FLAGS} ${MPI_COMPILE_FLAGS}) set(LINK_FLAGS ${LINK_FLAGS} ${MPI_LINK_FLAGS}) and does it job, i.e. the target builds. precice is out own, independently build library. However, I have several questions: * Can I make target_link_libraries add a library for all defined targets? At the moment, there is only one, but in the projekt there are multiple, very similiar targets built. * Can I make find_library to treat the library as required, as with find_package? * Can I reused the value of find_library's PATH setting? Especially if there are multiple PATHs, wouldn't it be nice to have a precice-LIBPATH that contains the path, where the library was found? So I can add this to CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH? Or is there another function that does all that? * Is there a way to clean cmake cache, other than rm -rf CMakeFiles CMakeCache.txt. Would be nice, when playing around and frequently changing the CMakeLists.txt * I am a bit suprised that finding/or not finding MPI or precice is not printed out when executing cmake. * Any other advises you want to give me? Thanks for helping a beginner! Florian -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake