[CMake] How to link the third party libraries into the project?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Ram Mulage wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using boost library in my project and I want to link the boost static
> libraries into my project. How do i do this?
>
> My project  directory looks as below and each of the directories has the
> CMakeLists.txt file.
>
> Project
>
>   |-Lib1
>   |-Lib2
>   |-Application
>
> I am using the some of the boost libraries in the 'Application' directory
> apart from the Lib1 and Lib2 and the exe is built in Application directory
> itself. The boost librariess and the boost headers are present
> 'C:/Users/Admin/Boost/lib/windows' and 'C:/Users/Admin/Boost/boost'. Could
> you please tell how my CMakeList.txt for 'Application' directory should
> look?
>
> I would appreciate any help in this regard.

Please have a look at the FindBoost.cmake module documentation, you probably 
want to use it.
I haven't used Boost with cmake yet, but it should be more or less the same as 
for other packages:

# make cmake search for the package:
find_package(Foo REQUIRED)

# add the include directories:
include_directories(${FOO_INCLUDE_DIRS})

# add targets etc.
add_executable(hello main.cpp)

# link to the necessary libraries
target_link_libraries(hello ${FOO_LIBRARIES})

Alex